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Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption ...

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

Detecting a graviton — the hypothetical particle thought to carry the force of gravity — is the ultimate physics experiment. Conventional wisdom, however, says it can’t be done. According to one ...

A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic space-time fabric.