Jonathan Edwards, who originally studied physics at Durham University, still holds the men’s world record for the triple-jump. Edwards broke the record twice on 7 August 1995 at the World Athletics ...

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

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At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...

Neglected no more: Aaron Lauda explaining the encoding scheme used to realize qubits in the collective state of a neglecton and two Ising anyons. (Courtesy: Gus Ruelas/USC) Quantum computers open the ...

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New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...