New works presents a unified theoretical framework to describe the electronic structure of non-Hermitian systems, potentially leading to major advancements in condensed matter physics ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have achieved exciting progress in quantum metrology, a field ...

The spiritual view of life is trapped between two opposite words, physics and metaphysics, the study of the physical world and the study of what might lie beyond the physical. Given a choice ...

Physicists tested the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox, which is at the heart of quantum theory, to measure light ...

A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

Superconductivity is an advantageous physical phenomenon observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

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An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter particles called electrons that you can think of as orbiting around the ...

In a discovery that has both intrigued and perplexed the scientific community, a series of unusual radio signals detected over the icy expanse of Antarctica have prompted researchers to reconsider ...

Many AI models were trained on the text of books, but a new test found at least one model has directly memorised nearly the entirety of some books, including Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, ...

A metric prefix is a numerical multiplier that is placed before a basic unit of measure to indicate a specified multiple or fraction of that unit. They range from the smallest, 'yocto' (1 ...