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A new star survey and statistical analysis vindicate a 50-year-old theory.

Replacing silicon crystals with gallium arsenide ones quadruples energy resolution, the biggest jump the technique has seen in its half-century history.

Virtual photons mediate nonlocal interactions between cold atoms.

A predicted phase transition shows up in high-pressure experiments.

Astronomers, chemists, geologists, astrobiologists, and other scientists are working to decode how planetary systems form and to find extraterrestrial life.

Agency is criticized for conducting an apparently piecemeal process to satisfy its future requirements for enriched uranium. Stipulation that material have US origin is also questioned.

Lawrence, the creator of the cyclotron, also tried to bring the first color TV to American consumers. The story of his efforts reveals how the history of television was connected to physics and the military.

Quantum architects, with knowledge of both physics and computer engineering, are key to developing scalable quantum computers.

The marriage of the two fields may give birth to a new research frontier that could transform them both.

Throughout its 90-year history, the journal has elucidated all the major advances in the science of the densest phases of matter.

The putative planet accounts for similarities in the orbits of a collection of objects in the distant Kuiper belt.