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Physicists froze a 'necklace' of atoms — and witnessed a quantum phenomenon predicted 100 years ago -
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Crystal made from 13-sided 'einstein' shape bends light in ways physicists never imaginedScientists carved a 13-sided shape called an "einstein" into a chip and discovered that it steers light in ways no other crystal does.
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Physicists find a way to control heat in a way once thought impossibleResearchers designed a material that can independently control how it absorbs and emits heat, and it even retains those settings once the power is turned off.
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Richard Feynman's divisive 'reverse sprinkler' problem finally solved by modern lab experimentsScientists have pinned down why a sprinkler spins when it sucks in water instead of spraying it out — a problem that stumped Richard Feynman and has divided physicists for nearly a century.
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Are quasiparticles real?Life's Little Mysteries Given the "quasi" in quasiparticles, do scientists consider them to be real particles?
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Mathematician Hong Wang becomes third woman to win the Fields Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious math prizesHong Wang, a mathematician at New York University, helped solve a decades-old geometry problem and is now the third woman to win math's most prestigious award.
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What does 'cryptology' mean?Science word of the day Pronunciation: Krip-TAH'-leh-jee
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzleA decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.
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Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking's elusive radiation theoryScientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.
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Was Einstein wrong about anything?Life's Little Mysteries Albert Einstein is regarded as a genius, but even he admitted that his work wasn't perfect. So what did he get wrong?
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