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Impossible signal from deep beneath Antarctic ice baffles physicists

A cosmic particle detector in Antarctica has emitted a series of bizarre signals that defy the current understanding of particle…

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Physicists snap the first images of ‘free-range’ atoms

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the…

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Physicists use quantum entanglement to crack mystery of strange metals

Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of strange metals — materials that defy conventional rules of electricity and…

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Contact electrification depends on materials’ contact history, physicists show

For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific investigation. Now, researchers from the Waitukaitis group at…

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Physicists uncover evidence of two arrows of time emerging from the quantum realm

What if time is not as fixed as we thought? Imagine that instead of flowing in one direction — from…

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Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in ‘magic-angle’ graphene

Superconducting materials are similar to the carpool lane in a congested interstate. Like commuters who ride together, electrons that pair…

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Physicists pioneer entanglement microscopy algorithm to explore how matter entangles in quantum many-body systems

Quantum entanglement — a phenomenon where particles are mysteriously linked no matter how far apart they are — presents a…

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