Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of ...

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In the intricate world of quantum physics, where particles interact in ways that seem to defy the standard rules of space and ...

Scientists have created an optical device capable of mimicking black holes and the still hypothetical white holes. This ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers from the University of Rostock and the University of Birmingham have made a ...

Chirality in organic superconductors was found to induce giant spin-current coupling, mimicking strong spin-orbit effects.

Arnold Mathijssen, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania, is partial to pour-over coffee, which involves manually pouring hot water over ground beans and filtering it into a pot or mug below.

"A phantom traffic jam is an emergent phenomenon whose behavior takes on a life of its own, greater than the sum of its parts ...

Penn physicists were among more than 13,000 researchers from 70 countries who shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental ...