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The standard model of physics is one of the most successful scientific theories in existence, but do we need it all?

Some laws of physics are so fundamental that they’ve served as the baseline for science for centuries. But with technological advancements, physicists can—albeit temporarily—create small worlds that ...

Researchers in Japan have unveiled how thousands of microscopic particles can spontaneously pair up, ...

High-energy particles in Earth's radiation belt can appear to spread out randomly, even when they are moving in a ...

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Scientists discovered unusually high water-vapor supersaturation inside deep tropical clouds, creating conditions in which ...

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The universe has cooked up all sorts of bizarre and beautiful forms of matter, from blazing stars to purring cats, out of just three basic ingredients. Electrons and two types of quarks, dubbed “up” ...

Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to an understanding of ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously invisible to the naked eye and abundant.

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