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When repeating four-letter words, participants held a challenging physical task for longer than when they said neutral words.

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a ...

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by a dark matter detector, and the results provide the strongest constraints ...

In a landmark experiment, scientists have found fresh evidence that a subatomic particle is disobeying one of science’s most watertight theories, the Standard Model of particle physics. The gap ...

Here’s what you'll learn in this story: In 1907, a physician named Duncan MacDougall published a controversial paper, claiming the human soul weighs just 21 grams. In his experiment, MacDougall used ...

Thought experiments — asking students to imagine outcomes — can be just as powerful for learning science as hands-on activities, according to new research from Associate Professor Elizabeth Bonawitz ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Programming is a key transferable skill within the chemical sciences with applications ...

Abstract illustration of a quantum double-slit experiment. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. MIT physicists have recreated the most iconic experiment in quantum physics — this time with individual atoms ...