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In 2026, Penn State celebrates the centennial anniversary of awarding its first doctoral degree — in physics — to Marsh White ...

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Indu Satija celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Douglas Hofstadter’s eponymous, iconic butterfly and explains its enduring, magnetic appeal Each new realization adds another chapter ...

UB physicists led research that found a mathematical solution showing how a frustrated quantum magnet can transition to ...

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Chinese and European scientists have unveiled prototypes that usher in a new era of timekeeping, using thorium-229 as their ...

Eugene Mele is a theoretical physicist who has explored the physics of carbon electrons, from conducting polymers to graphene ...

Kagome superconductor physics advances: physicists identify a chiral electron parent state in CsV3Sb5 that forms above 174 K ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United ...

Quantum mechanics powers lasers and precision measurements. A century-spanning perspective examines those successes and the ...