Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will ...

THE WhatsApp message from IBM was ominous: four to six inches of snow was expected over Troy, New York and many places nearby ...

Forty years later, Cheryl McNair remembers the shock of watching the Challenger space shuttle fall to pieces with her husband, astronaut Ronald McNair, onboard. “Now what?” Cheryl McNair, now in her ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

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By squeezing terahertz light beyond its usual limits, researchers have exposed hidden quantum "jiggles" inside a ...

The implications of the breakthrough could ripple through multiple industries. A better understanding of how superconductivity behaves at quantum scales could accelerate the development of ...

How do you create an inquisitive mind? Simply accumulating knowledge isn't good enough, suggest Lei Bao and colleagues (Am. J. Phys. 77, 1118–1123; 2009). Specifically, the teaching and learning of ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

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It is much touted that string theory — although offering an excess of solutions, and thereby possible universes — has yet to make a testable prediction. The energy scales involved are so huge that no ...

A new video released Wednesday by the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office shows the gunman in the deadly Brown University mass shooting walking off campus after killing two students on Dec. 13, ...