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Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Theoretical physicist Paul Dirac believed the universe is built using advanced mathematics. He saw this order as the work of ...

A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a research team including Andriy Nevidomskyy, professor of physics and astronomy at ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single exotic particle behaves in a many-body system, namely as a mobile or static ...

Science fiction is full of amazing space phenomena. Some of those phenomena have gone from theory to reality — like black holes and pulsars. But what about wormholes? These portals through space are ...

A theoretical proposal published in the journal Reports on Progress in Physics is making some bold claims about our previous understanding of quantum physics. Mainly, that we were wrong. The proposed ...

Physicist Boris Shraiman has led an intellectually peripatetic career, to great satisfaction, success and acclaim. The theoretician, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, was recently awarded the American ...

Offering scholars and enthusiasts unprecedented access to the works of one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the UC Santa Barbara Library has ...