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A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

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Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

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There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

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A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Researchers from around the world have sought to answer important questions about the most basic laws of physics that govern our universe. Their experiment, the Majorana Demonstrator, has helped to ...

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...