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The current cosmological model requires new physics beyond the standard model of elementary particles and fields, such as dark matter and dark energy. Their nature is unknown and so is that of the ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which John de Lancie's nearly-omnipotent alien character "Q" is stripped of his powers and banished to the Enterprise as a human because fans of ...

Ether (or aether) is a term used in ancient mythology and medieval science to denote the matter that fills in the void of the universe. In the 19th century, physicists borrowed the concept to depict a ...

Making waves: a photonic Mach cone has been captured by ultrafast, single-shot technique. (Courtesy: Jinyang Liang and Lihong Wang) The optical equivalent of a sonic boom has been filmed for the first ...

First sight?: CERN's ATLAS collaboration claims to see light-by-light scattering for first time The idea that particles of light can interact with one another – known as light-by-light scattering – ...