Over 85 years after it began, the Einstein-Bohr debate remains the most consequential intellectual rivalry in modern science — one that shaped quantum mechanics, redefined human understanding of ...

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From experimentally detecting multi-quark states, to finely controlling optical metasurfaces, Nankai University’s School of Physics is carrying on the strong traditions started by its creator, and one ...

Researchers believe they have found the signal of a pulsar, the ancient core of a rapidly spinning star, at the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black hole. This discovery could lay the ...

Binary stars often orbit close together, and their gravitational pulls are anything but simple. A planet orbiting both feels a constantly changing tug. Its path slowly rotates, a process called ...

Astronomers have long wondered why planets orbiting two stars, like the iconic Tatooine in Star Wars, are so rare. Most stars form with planets, and a large fraction are born in binary systems.

There's never a shortage of weird and wonderful historical theories that leave us scratching our heads. Pyramids not built by humans? Been there. Hidden chapter in human evolution? Done that. But ...