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A member of the physics faculty at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) in Poland and one of his graduate students were ...

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The soft, waxy "solid refrigerant" being investigated in a UK laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual ...

The BS Physics Program in the School of Physics and Astronomy offers a comprehensive curriculum that provides a solid foundation in experimental, computational, and theoretical physics, emphasizing ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

A seismic mystery nearly 3,000 kilometers underground has finally been solved: researchers found that solid rock flows horizontally, aligning minerals and causing a shift in earthquake wave speeds ...

Scientists have discovered that under the right conditions, a gummy bear-like ball can roll down a vertical wall all by itself—upending a core assumption in physics.

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