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Retired psychiatrist Dr. Sam D. Toney releases Revelation Equation, a science fiction novel grounded in real physics that ...

An illustration conveying the idea of a space-based quantum internet, which would seem, like the hypothetical particle of a tachyon, to outpace light. An illustration ...

In this video, we explore the relationship between string theory and quantum field theory (QFT). QFT is a mathematical ...

Jason Bono was one of the researchers behind a major scientific moment — when tiny particles unexpectedly unraveled one of the most important and successful theories in physics. Bono, who earned his ...

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Peter Higgs, the European scientist who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for describing the Higgs boson(Photo: AP) Peter Higgs, the European scientist who won the ...