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Knowing and stopping is to me more about physics and less about scheme. It’s about a group of guys who have been running the same system since they were two, it seems like,” Kennett ...

Excitons, bound states between an electron (i.e., a negatively charged particle) and a hole (i.e., the absence of an electron ...

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From safer airbags to stronger athletes, UVA data science professor Stephen Baek is using artificial intelligence to study ...

The 2025 ceremony, held at Boston University, showcased a range of peculiar studies — from whether Teflon can curb hunger to ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

Like its theme, “digestion,” the 35th Ig Nobel prizes will make you laugh and think hard to digest the meaning of all the ...

The tongue-in-cheek scientific awards also recognise research into lizard's preferred pizza and garlicky breastmilk.

Johns Hopkins APL's TETRA effort is funded by the Pentagon's Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program.

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New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...