For a field that many have long considered decades away, quantum computing sure is getting a lot of buzz in Silicon Valley.

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

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Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores information in ...

The tech giant’s researchers say the advance could lead to vastly more powerful computers.

Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales, typically completing a cycle in just a few ...

Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales, typically completing a cycle in just a few hundred attoseconds (one ...

Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its ...

Chinese scientists sustain plasma at 100 million degrees C for 1,066 seconds in EAST, advancing nuclear fusion research.

The quantum size of a neutrino has been measured for the first time using innovative table-top measurements of the particle’s ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney have proven that ...