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How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

Two unusual gravitational-wave events, discovered by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA colloboration, enhance our understanding of black ...

Dark energy, the mysterious force thought to drive the universe's accelerating expansion, remains one of the deepest puzzles in modern physics. For ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be changing over time. Dark energy, the mysterious force causing the universe to ...

We aren’t sure if [Looking Glass Universe] didn’t trust the accepted number for Planck’s constant, or just wanted the experience of measuring it herself. Either way, she took ...

By miniaturizing THz spectroscopy to a chip-scale platform, James McIver’s lab has uncovered a promising new method for controlling quantum materials. Under certain conditions, two-dimensional (2D) ...

Researchers used high-energy electron irradiation to create atomic defects in nickelate superconductors, clarifying how ...

More heat is transferred between objects that are just a few nanometers apart than physics theory predicts. A research team ...

With THz spectroscopy scaled down to chip-sized, researchers identified a potential new way to control quantum materials.