Jonathan Edwards, who originally studied physics at Durham University, still holds the men’s world record for the triple-jump. Edwards broke the record twice on 7 August 1995 at the World Athletics ...

At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

Tucked away Illustration showing the position and size of the CONUS+ detector within the reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland.

New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

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Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...

Neglected no more: Aaron Lauda explaining the encoding scheme used to realize qubits in the collective state of a neglecton and two Ising anyons. (Courtesy: Gus Ruelas/USC) Quantum computers open the ...

Tailored profiles: The working principle of the new metalaser. The designed geometric phase profile is introduced to the metasurface by rotating the hole in each silicon nitride nanodisk. Then the ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...