Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

The final episode of fifth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things is out this week, and the concept of a wormhole ...

This is what the Defector staff read and enjoyed in 2025. The Trials of Gabriel Ward Murder Mystery Series, by Sally Smith ...

As a high-schooler in the 1950s, Kay Washburn babysat for 50 hours to afford her $25 dream dress. After spotting the moss green, knee-length frock with matching bolero jacket in the window of her ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find aliens. Reading time 6 minutes At Gizmodo, we love a good story about ...

SUCCEED. IF YOU’RE COMING TO THE O’S GAME WEDNESDAY NIGHT, YOU MIGHT AS WELL BRING SOME BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES WITH YOU. WE’LL BE COLLECTING SCHOOL SUPPLIES TO BENEFIT BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL ...

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He and a colleague created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics. By George Johnson Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical ...

Prize awarded for developing 'next generation of quantum technology' 'I'm completely stunned,' says UC Berkeley professor Quantum technology ubiquitous in everyday electronics Physics is second prize ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an ...

In the 100th-anniversary year of quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at its smallest, most fundamental scales, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to three pioneers in bringing its ...