Vacuum tunnelling – an exotic process by which empty space can become temporarily filled with virtual particles when an ...

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The researchers found that a slightly curved meniscus allows more wave energy to pass through the barrier. Conversely, if the meniscus curves more steeply, it reduces the energy transported by the ...

This applies to the Shanghai Outer Ring Tunnel: a major travel artery in China’s largest city, which runs for almost 3 km ...

The Dutch manufacturer Delft Circuits is rewriting the rules of I/O cabling technology for full-stack quantum computing ...

IMAP, which is 2.4 m in diameter and almost 1 m high, will also support real-time observations of the solar wind and ...

London-based artist Oksana Kondratyeva has created a new stained-glass artwork – entitled Discovery – that is inspired by the ...

In the past three decades astronomers have discovered more than 6000 exoplanets – planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Many of these exoplanets are very unlike the eight planets of the solar ...

A backpack equipped with gyroscopes shows promise as a balance aid for people with the movement disorder ataxia and could one day remove the need for cumbersome mobility aids ...

How do we create a digital version of the vellum and clay tablets that successfully preserved information in earlier ages of human history?

Researchers find that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an excited atomic state while passing through a cloud ...

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