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The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

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A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

Science can now explain the connection between information and consciousness. The answer is simpler—and stranger—than you might expect. The key is self-reference.

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A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Loureiro studied the behavior of plasma and worked to explain the physics behind astronomical phenomena such as solar flares.

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