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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...

Caroline Steel investigates the immortality of atoms by travelling to CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory located along the border of France and Switzerland. There, theoretical ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the ...

Researchers at Fudan University have built the world’s first fully functional memory chip made from a material only a few ...

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Remarkably, even though radioactivity is a threat to life, scientists can control and use it to diagnose and treat diseases – including cancers. If the radiation is delivered precisely to where cancer ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...

The humble transistor - smaller than a speck of dust — has been made more than any other invention in history, powering ...