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Researchers from Google and the University of California Santa Barbara have taken an important step towards the goal of building a large-scale quantum computer.

How do intercontinental ballistic missiles -- including the one North Korea launched Tuesday (Nov. 28) that flew more than 10 times higher than the International Space Station -- work?

Physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (run jointly by LMU Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics) have developed an attosecond electron microscope that allows them to visualize the dispersio...

A new study published in Physical Review Letters outlines how scientists could use gravitational wave experiments to test the existence of primordial black holes, gravity wells formed just moments after the Big Bang that...

In 2008, the European satellite PAMELA detected a surprisingly large concentration of high energy positrons above our atmosphere. The presence of so many positions, the anti-matter counterpart of electrons, goes against ...

By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on light instead of electronics.

Quantum simulators, which are special-purpose quantum computers, will help researchers identify materials with new and useful properties. This enticing future has just taken a step forward thanks to a collaboration betwe...

Over 200 pterosaur eggs have been found at a site in China, the largest such discovery on record, and the embryos inside reveal what newly-hatched pterosaurs were like

People who are single for life are 42 per cent more likely to get dementia, but marriage isn't always good for your health - especially if you're a woman

History tells us that earthly contamination is by far the most likely explanation for "extraterrestrial" bacteria found on the ISS hull, says Geraint Lewis

Artificial intelligence has received its fair share of hype recently. However, it's hype that's well-founded: IDC predicts worldwide spend on AI and cognitive computing will culminate to a whopping $46 billion (with a "b...

MALARIA has been a scourge for most of history. In recent years, a good deal of progress has been made against the disease. But, as the World Malaria Report 2017, published on November 29th by the World Health Organisati...

Hot to trot AT THE end of the last ice age, around 11,700 years ago, Earth's climate began warming rapidly. As the planet heated up, its vast glaciers fell back. Almost immediately afterwards (in geological terms, at lea...

ELECTRIC cars are clean, quiet and, it seems, the way of the future. Tesla, an American firm that has done much to help electric cars shed their museli-munching image, is struggling to meet demand for its mid-market Mode...

HIPPOCRATES, the father of medicine, was known to have used smell as an aid to his work. Generations of doctors followed suit. Syphilis, for instance, is thought to have a characteristic odour; the smell of rotting apple...

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday lasting eight days. It is typically celebrated in late fall or early winter. Although it is a minor holiday, its popularity has grown.

Rising sea levels could threaten Jamestown in Virginia, Kennedy Space Center and Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, among thousands of other archaeological sites in the U.S.

In an interview at Exponential Medicine in San Diego, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Brea shared her difficult yet powerful journey with chronic fatigue syndrome. Brea was a healthy PhD student at Harvard University, abo...

The North Pole, the northernmost point on Earth, has inspired human imagination, scientific exploration and political conflict for decades.

(Phys.org)--The piezoelectric effect, which causes a material to expand along the direction of an applied electric field, is common in many materials and used in a variety of technologies, from medical ultrasound to vibr...

For the first time, the LHCb experiment at CERN has collected data simultaneously in collider and in fixed-target modes. With this, the LHCb special run is even more special.

Women did a lot of the heavy lifting during the Neolithic era.