Fermilab’s SQMS Center is on a mission to realize inherently scalable “qudit-based” quantum computing and quantum ...

By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have developed an approach that could ...

Waste biomass created by forestry work, crop production and wildfire mitigation is often simply burned, releasing the carbon ...

CP Snow’s classic The Two Cultures lecture, published in book form in 1959, is the usual go-to reference when exploring the divide between the sciences and humanities. It is a culture war that was ...

Trips to synchrotron facilities could become a thing of the past for some researchers thanks to a new laboratory-scale ...

Acoustic oscillations in M67 stars reveal a surprising plateau in frequency patterns, providing a new tool to probe stellar interiors and refine age estimates ...

Even if the Milky Way and Andromeda don’t collide in the next 10 billion years, though, that won’t be the end of the story.

Those goals are probably as insanely ambitious as they sound, which is why my day-to-day work is a mix of complexity economics, monetary theory and economic anthropology. I spend a lot of time ...

Perfect fit: Device schematic and fabrication process flow of the mortise-and-tenon memristor. (Courtesy: Weiqi Dang et al. Science Advances 11 18 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adu3309) Researchers in China ...

Scientists who switch research fields suffer a drop in the impact of their new work – a so-called “pivot penalty”. That is according to a new analysis of scientific papers and patents, which finds ...

New research explains previous contradictory observations in terms of “topological blocking”, which may occur in other ...

Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum, according to a new study. What is more, astronomers may have ...