Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

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Physicists have spent decades chasing two grand technological dreams: harnessing fusion power and uncovering the nature of ...

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

In one of the rockiest years yet for science, Philadelphia-area researchers still managed to celebrate many wins. Here are five of them.

The effects of cycles of compression and relaxation during Earth’s early lifetime can be studied using a combination of fast ...

Experiments show Josephson junction-like behavior can arise with only one superconductor, challenging the standard two-superconductor model.

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A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has ...