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In his classic science-fiction story “The New Accelerator,” published in 1901, H. G. Wells describes a drug that speeds up a person’s metabolism by a factor of 1,000. For the two protagonists who ...

This is an example of time dilation, a consequence of the idea that time and space are not absolute - meaning all observers do not always measure these quantities as the same. In everyday life we use ...

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Exploring the quantum nature of gravity requires systems that balance quantum control and gravitational interaction, most plausibly within the microgram-to-milligram mass range. Here, the authors ...

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Energy efficiency in physics is not measured the way most people think about it. Instead of asking how much heat a process produces per unit of fuel, physicists often compare how much of a substance’s ...

Black holes that turn matter into energy could explain dark energy and answer two other cosmic questions. Now, the challenge ...

To highlight how women are pushed aside, I’ve compiled a list of 17 awesome women whose accomplishments were stolen by men. These pioneering women serve as ...

Proposals offering alternatives to Einstein’s relativistic theory of gravitation are almost as old as the theory itself. Einstein even saw them as the beginning of a path that could lead to quantum ...

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