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A standard time crystal is a new phase of matter that features perpetual motion without expending energy. According to Chong ...

University of Colorado scientists may not be breaking the laws of physics with their thermal energy work, but they are ...

A hidden quantum wave may keep particles moving, even when everything else freezes. Researchers discovered that phasons, a ...

Researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Southwest Forestry University have developed ...

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At the largest gathering of physicists in the world, the American Physical Society says it won’t back down in the face of ...

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of the elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook.

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Mike Edmunds and Zbig Sobiesierski argue that student learning can be boosted by enthusiasm, engagement and enablement ...