These observations, first made by Philipp Lenard in 1902, gave a startling twist to the story! The mystery was finally resolved by Albert Einstein in 1905, while working as a clerk in the Swiss Patent ...

A possible method for probing the properties of exotic particles that exist on the surfaces of an unusual type of ...

A conceptual illustration of a Majorana fermion, which is also its own antiparticle. A Majorana fermion's multipole response ...

Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

Barbara Scollin and D. Ray Smith bring the 12th part of her story on Kenneth D. Nichols. We learn of the nail-biting effort ...

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Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, ...

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An investigation by utility Southern California Edison is increasingly focused on whether a decommissioned line was ...

Discover how iron's opacity in the sun challenges scientific models, and how researchers are working to resolve the discrepancy.

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To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died ...