“The ordering of the operations ‘putting shoes on’ and ‘putting socks on’ therefore matters,” Schwichtenberg had written, meaning that “the two operations do not commute.” Empirically verifiable, ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just two stars. An international team was able to determine the location and ...

The final result from the Muon g-2 Experiment has exceeded all expectations, achieving a precision likely to remain unmatched ...

Researchers in Japan have accelerated muons into the most precise, high-intensity beam to date, reaching energies high as 100 keV. The achievement could enable next-generation experiments such as ...

Satyendra Nath Bose didn’t just make huge contributions to quantum science, he also welcomed women into what was at the time a male-dominated field. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta and Rupamanjari Ghosh discuss ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

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Construction has begun on the new headquarters of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Yesterday, ...

Researchers find a “cool” way to mitigate background water signals and demonstrate non-invasive blood ion monitoring in living mice ...

The Norwegian-born condensed-matter physicist Ivar Giaever, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973, died on 20 June ...

Phenomenon also occurs in critical systems found in statistical physics and is directly linked to the animal’s growth ...

To avoid this restriction, which is known as vignetting, Cui explains that the team separated the two lenses and inserted a Keplerian telescope between them. “This ‘telescope-within-a-microscope’ ...