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Lodha Foundation launched the Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute in Mumbai on Wednesday, calling it India’s first privately ...

Quantum physicists have uncovered a bizarre phenomenon in which photons appear to spend a “negative” amount of time ...

A new Physical Review Letters study places constraints on the ER = EPR conjecture, showing that under the authors' ...

Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research from the University of Tokyo. Researchers have used two techniques—high-speed ...

The aurora phenomenon is one of the most breathtaking natural displays on Earth. This article explores the science behind the Northern and Southern Lights, explaining how solar particles collide with ...

(Philipp Tur/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. This ...

Sarah previously worked for the Guardian, Central News and The Evening Chronicle in Newcastle. Sarah Knapton is the Science Editor of The Telegraph and has covered all areas of science since 2013. She ...

One reason to test ever larger Schrödinger’s kittens is they might show us that quantum mechanics itself breaks down before ...

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