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In an unprecedented feat, physicists packed three qubits into each of six particles. The implications could be staggering.

May 6, 2010, is a date that should live in infamy. On that day, the US stock market suffered a trillion-dollar collapse. Do you remember it? In just 15 minutes from 2:45 pm, the Dow Jones plunged by almost 9 percent. Had...

The demand for lighter, stronger, and more durable materials for use in vehicles has never been higher. Companies are looking at new and advanced materials such as lightweight advanced high-strength steels (AHSS) to deve...

Take a bounce: A microscopic trampoline could help engineers to overcome a major hurdle for quantum computers, researchers from CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report in a new stu...

Evidence of the first early bread suggests humans were baking with wheat and oats thousands of years before they began farming the cereals

The UK government is funding the development of spaceports in Scotland and Cornwall, but plans for US firms to launch small satellites could run afoul of US export laws

Researchers have developed a sticky sheet that could allow a wirelessly-powered LED chip to be stuck inside the body to deliver "photodynamic therapy"

A study has found that CRISPR can delete large chunks of DNA, suggesting it could cause cancer if used to treat diseases by editing many cells in the body

Gonorrhea is the second most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. More than 468,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported to the CDC in 2016, although the number may be much higher.

The universe should be a predictably symmetrical place, according to a cornerstone of Einstein's theory of special relativity, known as Lorentz symmetry. This principle states that any scientist should observe the same l...

Making new discoveries may require writing new software first. Scientists conceived of the Large Hadron Collider and its experiments in 1992. Back then, Apple was starting to figure out the laptop computer, and a CERN fe...

How conscious is the brain under anesthesia?

A new hybrid energy-harvesting device may one day replace the need for batteries in certain low-power electronics devices. The new device collects ambient wasted energy from both mechanical vibrations and magnetic fields...

Determining features of the elusive particle known as a neutrino - through the observation of an extremely rare nuclear process called neutrinoless double-beta decay (NDBD)--could provide a glimpse into the nature of the...

A mission meant to save critically endangered rhinoceroses by transferring them to a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya has ended in tragedy. And now we know why.

When grape harvesters at a German winery mysteriously fell ill with "rabbit fever," a rare bacterial illness, one question in particular stood out: How did they get sick?

What's really happening when Mars is in retrograde?

The worker bees that form "hot defensive bee balls" are effectively kamikaze fighters, with the heat from the ball shortening their life expectancy

The flurry of cabinet resignations in the aftermath of the Chequers agreement leaves the UK at serious risk of crashing out of the EU without a deal

Einstein was right about things he didn't even know existed.

In 15 percent of cases, cellular DNA was so scrambled that the cells lost function.

Diamonds may be more common than we think