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Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been ...

They were able to see a very clear difference between the two ... of topological effect that was the subject of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1985. Since that time, topological phases have ...

A Princeton team uncovered a surprising chiral quantum state in a supposedly non-chiral material, shedding light on elusive ...

Chirality — the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image — has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics ...

In 2024, Hopfield and his fellow AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the statistical ... and other pioneers was impossible to ignore. “It became clear that ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

In the 1960s, it became clear that spacetime curvature becomes ... culminating in major milestones such as the 2017 and 2020 Nobel Prizes in Physics. Key moments include the first detection ...

Hinton, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in physics last year for pioneering ... ways that AI had been applied to the field, often in the background. The makers of MRI and CT scanners use AI ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...