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At the heart of the weirdness for which the field of quantum mechanics is famous is the wavefunction, a powerful but mysterious entity that is used to determine the probabilities that quantum particles will have certain properties. Now, a preprint posted online on 14 November reopens the question of what the wavefunction represents — with an answer that could rock quantum theory to its core.

Preliminary findings from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may have uncovered experimental evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model.

Two new trails have been completed at the Whiting Road Nature Preserve: the Green Trail and the Brown Trail, both north of the Red Trail.

Light bulbs haven't been sexy tech since Thomas Edison's day, but innovation has come to an industry that has seen relatively little of it for a century. Today, the lighting industry is in a remarkable state of flux, and much of it has been driven by government action.

Most of the matter we can see (as opposed to all the dark stuff out there) is comprised of baryons, particles that are a combination of three quarks. The two most familiar baryons, protons and neutrons, are made up of the lightest quarks, the up and down (either two up and one down or vice versa, respectively). But it's also possible to construct similar baryons with the heavier, unstable quarks; many of these have been observed, and some of them have been incorporated into atomic nuclei within the brief time that they survive.

"Our own Universe may be the interior of a black hole existing in another universe.” In a remarkable paper about the nature of space and the origin of time, Nikodem Poplawski, a physicist at Indiana University, suggests that a small change to the theory of gravity implies that our Universe inherited its arrow of time from the black hole in which it was born.

COULD the structure of space and time be sketched out inside a cousin of plain old pencil lead? The atomic grid of graphene may mimic a lattice underlying reality, two physicists have claimed, an idea that could explain the curious spin of the electron.

The federal judge presiding over a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against Warner Bros. by the man who created the distinctive tattoo worn by Ed Helms in "The Hangover: Part II" has declined to halt the Thursday release of the film.

After fifteen years of development and becoming something of a running internet joke, Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold. It’s finished. For real. 2K Games announced today that the game has gone gold, which means the final code has been sent off for mass duplication and will be available on time for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC on June 14th. You can pinch yourself. You aren’t dreaming.