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The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

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In the past, physicist Stephen Hawking has hosted a champagne party for time travelers with balloons and hors d’oeuvres.

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Quantum can learn from the AI hype cycle, finding ways to manage expectations of what could be a very transformative technology. In the near- and mid-term, we need to not overplay things and be ...

OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of testing these systems.

The FBI offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person ...

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it ...

Following a sentencing in the Johnson County Courthouse Monday morning, former University of Iowa Physics and Astronomy ...