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Chien-Shiung Wu’s trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist.

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Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

In the process, their experiment included photons in 37 dimensions, taking science even further down this strange quantum ...

Quantum mechanics — the most successful and important theory in modern physics ... in works by physicists Max Planck in 1900 and Albert Einstein in 1905. They showed that certain properties ...

In a cosmic twist that even Albert Einstein ... known as an “Einstein ring” around a nearby galaxy. This discovery offers a unique opportunity to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

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Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...