Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

Physicists are quietly rolling out a new generation of simulation codes that promise to do more than crunch numbers. By ...

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Amelia Frank published a handful of scholarly papers which are well-cited for the time. Yet histories of physics mostly ...

Nature speaks to theoretical physicists to explore the real theories that inspired the hit series. Warning: contains spoilers ...

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