Created in 1991, the prestigious Ig Nobel Prizes spotlight unconventional studies from around the world that combine ...

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A study led by Politecnico di Milano, recently published in Nature Photonics, highlights the crucial role of virtual charges in insulating materials. One of the biggest challenges in modern physics an ...

Scientists at the Department of Applied Physics II of the University of Malaga have participated in the design of a new ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.

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This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

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New observations of two black holes merging have confirmed predictions made decades ago by Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, ...

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Prof. Rennan Barkana & Ph.D. student Sudipta Sikder. A new study from Tel Aviv University has predicted, for the first ...

In a significant potential shift for astrophysics, it turns out that some quasars may weigh as little as half what was previously believed.