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The discovery could inspire more optimal materials for solar panels and space travel.

American astronomers are calling for the development of a whole new suite of grandiose space telescopes that will be able to peer into the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System, listen to black holes ringing as they form throughout the Universe, and look back in time to when galaxies first emerged.

A physics breakthrough by researchers at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics shows how Einstein's theory of general relativity continues to hold up, even for "balding" black holes.

Theorists place bounds on the energy consumption of a mesoscopic nonequilibrium system using parameters that are experimentally accessible.

After decades of looking, physicists are no closer to discovering theorized particles that could help solve ongoing problems in physics.

Like some AI systems, the organ of thought appears to predict what word follows another to coax meaning from language.

The record-breaking result reveals the incredible precision achievable by atomic clocks.

The work of Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation,” the committee said.

The fine-structure constant is about 10 times its normal value in a type of material called quantum spin ice, physicists calculate. The new calculation hints that quantum spin ice could give a glimpse at physics within an alternate universe where the constant is much larger.

The mathematician Ingrid Daubechies’ pioneering work in signal processing helped make our electronic world possible — and beat a path for women in the field.