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Physicists uncover a universal limit on timekeeping precision, proving that anything from heartbeats to ocean waves can be a ...

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 ...

In order to understand currents, tides and other ocean dynamics, scientists need to accurately capture sea surface height, or ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new synthesis of seismic research shows that artificial intelligence, when combined with physical principles, is rapidly ...