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A hand holding an iPhone in snowy weather

Thermal ‘earmuffs’ protect cell phone...

October 29, 2018
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Berkeley computer theorists show path to verifying...

October 29, 2018
Warner Carlisle

When it has to be done yesterday, the physics world...

October 23, 2018
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New Packard Fellow leverages time crystals to...

October 19, 2018
black hole lensing supernova and galaxy

Black holes ruled out as universe’s missing dark...

October 2, 2018
Scientists in white jumpsuits work in a clean room

New lab-campus partnership to harness power of...

September 25, 2018
Iron filings gather in a magnetic field pattern

Diamond dust enables low-cost, high-efficiency...

September 10, 2018
pool of liquid hydrogen like that at the core of Jupiter

Zapping hydrogen gas with 168 lasers turns it into a...

August 20, 2018
3D carbon cage of schwarzite

New form of carbon a diamond in the rough

August 13, 2018
a nanoribbon superlattice

Tying electrons down with nanoribbons

August 8, 2018

George Oster, pioneer in applying mathematics to...

April 20, 2018
SQUID-based amplifier

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April 9, 2018
underground cavern in Boulby mine, UK

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March 27, 2018

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March 13, 2018
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Some black holes erase your past

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Hot bodies are attractive

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