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Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015, physicists are advancing knowledge about the limits on the precision of the measurements ...

A supercomputer capable of a quintillion operations a second will go online in 2021 after the US government handed Intel and supercomputer manufacturer Cray a contract to build an exascale computer called Aurora. This ma...

So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications --

Reports suggest a flight control system and missing safety features could have contributed to the recent crashes involving Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft

A new method allows the quantum state of atomic "qubits"--the basic unit of information in quantum computers--to be measured with twenty times less error than was previously possible, without losing any atoms. Accurately...

The deep part of Earth's middle layer is on the move.

Is Earth an exhibit in an alien zoo?

Most of our brain cells are in place at birth, but new research suggests we may keep producing new neurons throughout adulthood and even into our 80s

Little is known about Pontius Pilate, the man who presided over the trial of Jesus.

Nobel Laureate Samuel Ting laughed when I asked where all of the high energy electrons that hit his particle detector were coming from. "The data has just been published three days ago," he told me, hinting at the depth ...

An international team of researchers has measured a quantum power increase in a quantum boost engine for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group outlines their experimen...

The discovery of a T. rex that was 400 kilograms heavier than any other found so far suggests we may have underestimated the size of this and other dinosaurs

A group of researchers in the Netherlands tested the substance's effects on 17 healthy volunteers in the lab

Melting glaciers are revealing dozens of dead bodies on the world's tallest mountain

An extinct Australian marsupial looks like a kangaroo, an opossum and a deer got a bit too friendly at the local watering hole.

The decline of an empire was recorded in mounds of trash.

A team of physicists used lasers to create "supercrystals," even as the structures fought to not exist at all.

(University of Freiburg) Researchers develop a hydrogel whose stiffness and permeability to cells can be controlled with light

(Virginia Tech) With the award, Srinivasan will take a first-principles kinetic approach rather than using the commonly applied fluid models to better understand astrophysical phenomena associated with explosions that oc...

(Scripps Research Institute) An enzyme-blocking molecule can extend the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans roundworms by as much as 45 percent, largely by modulating a cannabinoid biological pathway, according to a study...

(Queen Mary University of London) Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have found a way to place catalysts inside the tiniest pores of different host materials, a bit like when model ships are unfolded inside a ...

(University of Illinois College of Engineering) Although we're still a long way from commercial airplanes powered by a combination of fossil fuel and batteries, a recent feasibility study at the University of Illinois ex...