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Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

The second paper, "Fermion Chirality from Non-Bipartite Topology," applies this same lattice geometry to the quantum world.

Daly City officials filed a formal notice of violation to an unnamed property owner this week after a fence and threatening signage were installed along Thornton State Beach earlier this month, ...

The contents of a letter Vance Boelter wrote to the FBI was released Tuesday along with a search warrant and six-count indictment charging Vance Boelter with stalking and fatally shooting DFL lawmaker ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Eliminating anti-Semitism is one of the Trump Administration's most significant social priorities. In 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14188, Additional Measures ...

The changes come after an immigrant last month said he spent two nights sleeping on the floor and around an open toilet with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking Oregon's unredacted voter rolls on Monday in another setback to wide-ranging efforts by President Donald Trump ...

HAIFA, Israel — Alexander Goldman, a Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Ukraine, Doctor of ...

“I was just absolutely appalled,” Canepa told SFGATE over the phone Sunday, after writing a letter to the California Coastal ...

For the first time, physicists have generated and observed stable bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interactions ...