George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...

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

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

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 ...

Floquet engineering: The periodic driving field contains a leading order contribution (left) and a correction term (centre). It generates the target Floquet Hamiltonian (right) that supports ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help sniff out questionable open-access publications that are more interested in profit ...

New finding advances our understanding of complex topological quantum systems and could help in the development of ...

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ...

A few weeks ago, I experienced a classic annoyance of modern life: one of my computer games stopped working. The cause? An “update” to the emulator that translates old games into programs that today’s ...

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