What you think is a perfect reflection might be universe that is fundamentally different. When you look in mirror, and see what you think is a perfect reflection. You might be looking at universe ...

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In a groundbreaking discovery, physicists have observed light traveling in reverse, an event that significantly challenges ...

(Nanowerk News) The world on the other side of Alice in Wonderland’s looking-glass is not what it seems, but the mirror-like physics of the superconductor-insulator transition operates exactly as ...

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A new study addresses a foundational problem in the theory of driven quantum matter by extending the Středa formula to ...

The standard model of cosmology, the theory that explains the universe at large scales, is buckling under peculiar observations. Different measurements of the Hubble Constant, the expansion rate of ...

I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. I shower and do my hair and makeup in front of a vanity mirror, then get dressed with the help of my full-length mirror. I have three mirrors in my ...

Two separate teams of scientists have built the thinnest mirrors in the world: sheets of molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2), each just a single atom wide. The mirrors were developed at the same time at ...

When you view your right hand in a mirror, it appears as a left hand. Writing is reversed, as is the direction of any spinning object: clockwise becomes counterclockwise and vice versa. In many ways, ...

Although plasmas are generally considered as unstable and hardly controllable media, during an ultrashort laser pulse—typically below 100 fs—this plasma only expands by a small fraction of the light ...