For almost a century, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: …
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Albert Einstein was a significant 20th-century figure. His scientific findings highlighted nature and human’s place in it. Einstein’s …
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Revealed: The Dark Secret Surrounding the Imprisonment of Wang Mingzhen (Part 2)
At the end of 1946, Wang Mingzhen returned to China and was later hired as a professor in …
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Alternating solid magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously …
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Scientists have created the first ”time crystal” two-body system in an experiment that seems to bend the laws …
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Technology
The Higgs Boson and the Rise of the Standard Model of Particle Physics in the 1970s
by Troy OakesAt the dawn of the 1970s, the idea of a massive scalar boson as the keystone of a …
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Researchers used computer modeling to study potential new phases of matter known as prethermal discrete time crystals (DTCs). …
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Technology
Disrupting Thermodynamic Equilibrium Allows Physicists to Make Square Droplets and Liquid Lattices
by Troy OakesWhen two substances are brought together, they will eventually settle into a steady state known as thermodynamic equilibrium; …
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Is the Standard Model of particle physics incorrect at key points? Recently, there has been an increase in …
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Technology
A New State of Light: Physicists Observe New Phase in Bose-Einstein Condensate of Light Particles
by Troy OakesA single “super photon” made up of many thousands of individual light particles — about 10 years ago, …