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Physicists are rethinking time itself. Long treated as a basic part of the universe, time may instead be an illusion—a side ...

A test using atomic clocks will watch superpositions ride Earth’s curved space-time and see if Einstein can play nice with ...

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Harnessing chaos theory, Ravi Monani is building ultra-efficient, keyless encryption for IoT devices—secure, lightweight, and ...

The Graduate School of Information Science (GSIS) at Tohoku University, together with the Physics and Informatics (PHI) Lab ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...