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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.

Scientists have long been puzzled by flying blobs of magma that remained intact, but didn’t have a good way to study them.

Scientists at UC Santa Cruz, the Flatiron Institute and Harvard University used 3D printing to create detailed resin spheres of stellar nurseries using data collected from these star-forming regions of space.

Theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander delves into a thought experiment concerning gravitons, virtual reality and Incan khipu.