The field of physics may be turned on its head soon, said renowned physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed during a live lecture from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For one, ...

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In Switzerland, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists smash protons together at close to the speed of light in the hopes of revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. If they succeed, ...

It seems like everybody wants a revolution in energy tech. From Green New Deal proponents to Palo Alto’s pundits where we hear that “clean tech” is on the cusp of “a 10x exponential process which will ...

The Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics presents a public lecture on Tuesday, July 26th at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics, Room G1B30. Presented by: Leon Balents, (KITP/UCSB) Abstract: ...

Chaoyang Lu from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei talks to Michael Banks about planning Quantum 2020 – a major online conference – and the future of quantum technologies ...

The field of physics may be turned on its head soon, said renowned physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed during a live lecture from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. For one, ...

In Switzerland, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scientists smash protons together at close to the speed of light in the hopes of revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. If they succeed, ...