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 ...

It probably hasn’t been long since you last slipped into something stretchy. From yoga pants to socks, stretch fabrics are ...

Microsoft's approach to scalable quantum computer involves the designing qubits using a novel material called topological ...

We say a message is incoherent when we can't make it out, or when it doesn't make sense. A scribbled note, a drunken argument ...

Scientists have discovered a way to use single missing atoms in crystals as memory cells, packing terabytes of data into a ...

The World's Most Expensive Substance Costs More Than the Global Economy Imagine a material so rare and difficult to produce ...

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes—individual molecules or ...

Dissolved Organic Matter is a mysterious and still largely unidentified combination of substances that is thought to be ...

Researchers have explored a 'quantum-inspired' technique to make the 'ones' and 'zeroes' for classical computer memory applications out of crystal defects, each the size of an individual atom. This ...

Neutrinos are sometimes called “ghost particles,” because they are nearly weightless, rarely interact with any other matter, ...

A recent decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reinstated claims seeking indemnification under the ...

University of Chicago researchers develop crystal storage technology that packs terabytes of data into millimeter-sized space ...