Friedrich Merz says he intends to stay on as the leader of Germany and his party after a string of state election defeats.

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For decades, string theory occupied an extraordinarily powerful position within theoretical physics. Eric Weinstein argues ...

When looking at a webpage, I sometimes think, 'What is this?' This time, too, it started with such a small question.There was ...

Physicists have put a decades-old idea about why the strange rules of quantum mechanics disappear in our everyday world to ...

Using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, scientists are on the hunt for quantum black ...

Twenty years ago, Richard Dawkins published his international best-seller The God Delusion, thus establishing “New Atheism” as a major cultural force. Over the ensuing decade, other authors – such as ...

Superconductors are materials that carry electricity with zero resistance below specific temperatures. Many of these ...

Residents of Ladera Ranch have tallied cancer cases and raised concerns about pesticides in parks and playing fields.

The RESCEU symposium, Gravity 2027 in Tokyo, February 15-19, 2027, focuses on the latest research in quantum cosmology and ...

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.