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One of the biggest challenges in modern physics is uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity. A new experiment may ...

A notebook featuring Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Dilara Irem. Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature.

Students in AST 250/251 build sophisticated space physics instruments of their own design  — suiting in bunny suits, booties, ...

A research team led by TU Darmstadt has transformed a difficult problem in quantum physics into a much simpler version ...

Paralleling the Cavendish experiment, the apparatus mitigates convective forces from reflectors heating to provide an ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

Hydraulic systems are powerful tools, but you don't always need complex machinery to create one. With basic materials and a bit of creativity, it's possible to craft a mini hydraulic pump that works ...

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings ...

Most particle physics projects today are so large that no one nation can undertake them alone, however. More than 20 countries were involved in the Large Hadron Collider’s construction. The report ...