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The chief of the CERN physics laboratory says China's decision to pause its major particle accelerator project presents an ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

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Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

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A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

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A new reboot of ‘Stargate’ is in the works. Find out more about the military sci-fi franchise that has delighted fans for over three decades.