A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

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We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole new model to account for gravity’s influence.

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Test your science history knowledge with this intriguing trivia question about one of meteorology's most important inventions. Italian physicist Evangelista Torricelli created the mercury barometer, a ...

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The researcher is reported to have left the US to take up a position at the University of Electronic Science and Technology ...

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

A former Harvard physicist is drawing global attention with a claim that sounds more like theology than astrophysics: he says ...

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Pierre Huyghe, 'Camata' film still, 2024. Courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, Esther Schipper, Hauser & Wirth, ...