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

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Scientists have now mapped the forces acting inside a proton, showing in unprecedented detail how quarks—the tiny particles ...

Photonics researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Kastler-Brossel Laboratory, France, have demonstrated how ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

The tech giant aims to make ‘topological’ quantum computers that will reach useful scales faster than competing technologies.

Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...

Particles in high-energy nuclear collisions move in a way that follows a pattern known as Lévy walks, a motion found across ...