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Wemby and Keldon Johnson shaved each other's heads bald after a loss in Oklahoma City. San Antonio built their biggest lead of the season in the next game.

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are pioneering the design and synthesis of quantum ...

University of Texas at Austin physicist Allan MacDonald was one of two winners of the international prize, given for ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan ...

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Chen-Ning Yang, a towering figure in science who shaped contemporary theoretical physics, passed away on 18 October 2025.