Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

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Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

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Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies. The Quanta Newsletter ...

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...