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Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

Cutting-edge technology meets the Kansas cow farm in a collaboration between physicists and agriculture scientists.

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Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...

Plasma physics is the study of a state of matter comprising charged particles. Plasmas are usually created by heating a gas until the electrons become detached from their parent atom or molecule.

Phil Lempert is one of America’s leading food and consumer trend-watchers and analysts. Lempert is based in Santa Monica, CA and has been a contributor to Forbes.com since March 2015. He served ...

Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves ...

National Science Day, observed on February 28, honors Dr. C.V. Raman’s groundbreaking discovery of the Raman Effect, which earned him the Nobel Prize in 1930. His work continues to shape modern ...

Globular springtails (Dicyrtomina minuta) are small bugs about five millimetres long that can be seen crawling through leaf litter and garden soil. While they do not have wings and cannot fly, they ...

But Institute Professor and 2024 Nobel winner Daron Acemoglu has some insights. Despite some predictions that AI will double US GDP growth, Acemoglu expects it to increase GDP by 1.1% to 1.6% over ...