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A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin material. When cooled, the material forms tiny magnetic vortices before ...

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Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

New experiments are bringing into focus the mechanism behind Hawking radiation, demonstrating black holes are not strictly a one-way street.

Quantum entanglement has long been understood as something that happens at the smallest possible scales, between individual atoms, photons and electrons carefully isolated from the messiness of the ...

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First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new ...