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At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

His art included cartoons for The New York Times, collaborations with Elie Wiesel and images that traced the history of ...

The swirling colors and flowing brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night have secured the painting (and its artist) a ...

Simple words like "force" and "particle" can mislead us as to what reality is actually like. Physicist Matt Strassler unpacks ...

For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the ...

Sep. 6, 2024 — An AI-powered tool can distinguish dark matter's elusive effects from other cosmic phenomena, which could bring us closer to unlocking the secrets of dark ... Electrically ...

A study led by researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a novel metal-dielectric film mode filter structure that ...

Some elements of that earlier vision remain: Math for English Majors talks about numbers as nouns, verbs as calculations, and ...

The author, the late Stephen Hawking was a professor in theoretical physics and a very popular science communicator ...

Sep. 18, 2024 — Scientists have shown that a type of qubit whose architecture is more amenable to mass production can perform comparably to qubits currently dominating the field. With a series ...

Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to ...