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A new theoretical study suggests fusion reactors could do more than generate energy, they might also produce particles linked to dark matter. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati say they have ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...

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A long-standing physics mystery has been solved with the discovery of emergent photon-like behavior inside a strange quantum ...