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In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have designed a rhodium catalyst whose microenvironment is tuned by both sulfur and phosphine ligands, based on an industrial single-site ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

For more than 200 years, scientists have argued about a deceptively simple question: why does a sheet of frozen water let us ...

Electricity is not a policy construct. It is physics – and the physics have not changed since Michael Faraday and the steam ...

Science has never been the pristine, market-free ideal many imagine. It has always lived – sometimes uneasily – within a ...

Sulfur, long feared as a "poison" that shuts down precious metal catalysts, can actually help them work better when ...

Famed scientist Herve This is convinced that note-by-note cooking, which involves cooking with compounds, is the way to feed ...

That means workers with a bachelor’s degree now face an unemployment rate of 2.8%, up from about 2.3% a year ago. That half ...

When you step onto an icy sidewalk or push off on skis, the surface can seem to vanish beneath you. For more than a century, ...