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Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in ...

Applied physicist Iker Zuriguel studies the movement of particles and people to optimize their flow and improve public safety.

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Why is the universe expanding at an ever-increasing rate? This is one of the most exciting yet unresolved questions in modern ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable ...