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Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

Nanoscale device employs magnetic tunnel junctions to convert thermal noise into binary signals for random number generation.

How a rejected paper by Kolkata physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, backed by Albert Einstein, laid the scientific foundation for ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

He found that the standard game can be unfair, as players with black pieces who go second have to keep up with the moves from ...

Macklin Celebrini’s game-winning push against the Kings was yet another testament to his precocious greatness.

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, but many physicists ...