One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

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When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

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Scientists at Penn State have developed a groundbreaking way to predict which materials might become superconductors. By combining powerful computer modeling with new theoretical insights, their ...

Smartphone processor and modem maker Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, the Italian company known mainly for its open source ecosystem of microcontrollers and the software that makes them function. In its ...