Quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform classical computers on some complex computational problems. These computers rely on ...

During the Cold War, two physicists became public "opponents" of the Pentagon's antiballistic missile systems. But they kept ...

The curved shape of a zebrafish egg causes unequal cell divisions, creating larger cells near the animal pole and smaller ...

New Analysis Platform Explores Why Household Tasks and Physical Automation Require Embodied Intelligence Beyond Traditional Computer Approaches The next wave of AI is physical AI. AI that understands ...

The Large Hadron Collider is entering a rare quiet spell, with its proton collisions halted so engineers can prepare the ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

At the smallest scales, heat engines can do more than Carnot ever imagined. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have ...

An exosyzygy – an alignment of three celestial objects around another star – is predicted to happen later this year, but it ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

Giant atoms, artificial atoms larger than the interacting wavelength of light, exhibit decoherence-free behavior, but what ...

But there are several important anomalies, including a widely debated one called the Hubble tension. It is named after Edwin ...

A massive young galaxy cluster has been found glowing with super-hot gas billions of years earlier than expected, defying current theories.