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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.

(Resolution Partners) In response to serious new security flaws found in almost every computer chip on the market today, researchers at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany, in collaboration with scientists at...

(Penn State) 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 at...

(University of Arizona College of Engineering) For decades, manmade chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were used in everything from carpets to frying pans to firefighting chemicals for their...

(Linköping University) Cellulose soaked in a carefully designed polymer mixture acts as a sensor to measure pressure, temperature and humidity -- at the same time! The measurements are completely independent of each oth...

(Boyce Thompson Institute) On January 29, 2019, Ascribe Bioscience became the first company based on technology developed at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) to receive a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant...