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Quantum computers need to preserve quantum information for a long time to be able to crack important problems faster than a normal computer. Energy losses take the state of the qubit from one to zero, destroying stored q...

The GRAPES-3 muon telescope in Ooty, India was designed to study the cosmos--events that took place millions of years ago at distances that confound the human imagination. What researchers didn't expect was that it would...

AI-controlled robotic limb driven by animal-like tendons can be tripped and recover before the next foot step, though not programmed to do so.

In recent years, the media has sounded the alarm about mass job loss to automation and robotics--some studies predict that up to 50 percent of current jobs or tasks could be automated in coming decades. While this topic ...

Climate change is causing forests around the world to lose their ability to recover from devastating wildfires

Black and Hispanic people in the US are, on average, exposed to more dirty air than white people, despite generally producing less pollution

Even the smallest mechanical pumps have limitations, from the complex microfabrication techniques required to make them to the fact that there are limits on how small they can be. Researchers have announced a potential s...

Transcranial alternating current brain stimulation (tACS) significantly reduced symptoms in people diagnosed with major depressive disorder in a pilot clinical trial.

Without realising people seem to synchronise their inhales with starting a task, and they sometimes perform better when they do so

A new study suggests the loss of blood vessels in the retina could signal Alzheimer's disease.

Discovery allows scientists to look at how 2-D materials move with ultrafast precision.

Jupiter's colossal magnetic field may create a jet stream in Europa's subsurface ocean, which could explain cracks in its surface and help nourish life there

An international collaboration including scientists at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) solved a 50-year-old puzzle that explains why beta decays of atomic nuclei are slower than wh...

Light incident on metallic nanoparticles can initiate the collective motion of electrons, causing a strong amplification of the local electromagnetic field. Such plasmonic resonances have significant roles in biosensing ...

Researchers at the University of Florence and Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, in Italy, have recently proved that the invasiveness of quantum measurements might not always be detrimental. In a study published in Physical...

Archaeologists and citizen scientists have unearthed what may be the monastery of Princess Aebbe, who was born a pagan but later spread Christianity along the northeast British coast in the seventh century.

This newly discovered dinosaur has an oddly shaped jaw.

Some sounds might possess a tiny but measurable amount of negative gravitational mass --

More than 150 people died after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed. Flying is still very safe overall, but questions remain about what went wrong

More than 150 people died after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed. Flying is still very safe overall, but questions remain about what went wrong

Technology originally developed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider and then flown in space by ESA is now being used to analyse historic artworks, helping to detect forgeries.

A gigantic solar storm hit Earth about 2,600 years ago, one about 10 times stronger than any solar storm recorded in the modern day, a new study finds.