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MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Spain’s Social Security website helps users access their personal data and services online. Credit : Ure, Shutterstock Misplaced your Spanish Social Security number and now a form is glaring at you in ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.