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Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

The symmetries of the universe play a fundamental role in shaping the laws of physics. From conservation of energy and ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

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John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...