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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a surprisingly simple way to create exotic light ...

Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no one could explain. New ...

A team of mathematicians from New York University and the Colorado School of Mines ...

Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of the universe.

Summertime in New Hampshire means summer camp for thousands of students. While some kids are hiking mountains and swimming in lakes, nearly two dozen students spent part of this week trying to turn ...

Rudolph Marcus was perplexed. It was 1955 and Marcus, a 31-year-old associate professor of chemistry still in the early ...