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Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

Very early on in our universe, when it was a seething hot cauldron of energy, particles made of matter and antimatter bubbled ...

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This achievement makes India capable of quantum computing using the different properties of light-based particles, instead of ...

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Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Researcher whose contribution to science was described as ‘close to Einstein’ specialised in the study of subatomic particles ...

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Researchers suggest that dark matter might subtly color light red or blue as it passes through, revealing traces of its ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as ...