For some time, researchers have assumed that solid materials could gain more useful properties by making their microscopic ...

In quantum mechanics, particles do not behave like everyday objects. Instead of existing in one clearly defined state, they ...

Only about 5% of the universe is composed of normal matter that we can directly observe, while the remaining 95% is widely ...

In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three passive optical components and watched it shatter into 3,070 tiny, spinning ...

In this quick science demo, I show how a simple black rectangle on an index card seems to disappear when I seal it in a plastic bag and dunk it in a bowl of water. I walk through what you’re seeing ...

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A Los Angeles-based startup has demonstrated what it calls a breakthrough in hardware development: an artificial intelligence system that designed a fully functional Linux computer in one week — a ...

As quantum computing is attracting unprecedented investment, with $3 billion flowing into the sector in just the first half of September through major venture deals and public markets, critical ...

MetaOptics, a 2021 startup based in Singapore with expertise in metalenses and related optical components, is aiming to raise net proceeds of S$4 million (approximately US$3.1 million) by listing on ...

How did you celebrate this summer’s centennial of Werner Heisenberg’s “magical paper,” which eventually brought us computers and smartphones? You say your social calendar doesn’t revolve around ...

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