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Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

COURT HOUSE – Carfentanil, a synthetic opioid seized in a drug raid in Cape May County in August, has only been linked to one death in the county so far, but its dangers far outweigh its brief history ...

Researchers have determined the age and origin of a massive tree that was found at the pre-Columbian city of Cahokia in what ...

For countless home cooks, the humble hard-boiled egg represents both simplicity and challenge a food so basic yet capable of ...