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Physicists at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have identified a hidden geometric structure reaching 48 ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 ...

Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of ...

Physicists have directly observed the electronic building blocks responsible for flat bands in quantum materials, confirming ...

A rift runs deep through the heart of physics. The general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, clashes with quantum physics. In an effort to seal that physics fissure, untold numbers of ...

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