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Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

Recent scans of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS by the Green Bank Telescope show no radio signals, yet astronomers argue it is ...

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A mysterious visitor from beyond our solar system is defying expectations and igniting fierce scientific debate as it hurtles ...

Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...