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Chen Ning Yang, one of the world’s most renowned physicists and a Nobel Prize winner, died at 103 of illness in Beijing on ...

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This controversial theory says the universe is subject to an ultimate, higher-order law that we can’t comprehend.

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UCSB physics professor emeritus John Martinis and UCSB physics professor Michel Devoret were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize.

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Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does ...