Human brain is such a vital part that run on just 20W, but can invent huge machines, once upon a time thought impossible; intrude into those that many believed as fiction; write poems, essays and ...

No doubt about it. We live in a topsy-turvy world. How Kafkaesque can it get, when some of Zionism’s most fervent supporters ...

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Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped for.

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Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

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