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Researchers at Toshiba Corporation have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computer architecture: the basic design for a double-transmon coupler that will improve the speed and accuracy of quantum computation in tunable ...

Older people have longer reaction times, slower decision times, and greater activation in brain areas involved in inhibition and task switching. The findings may shed light on why many older drivers mistake the accelerat...

Several states in the eastern US encourage residents to stomp on spotted lanternflies that threaten grapevines and other crops. But smooshing isn't a long-term solution

NASA's Perseverance rover has found a glut of organic molecules on Mars, as well as other materials that make the dry river delta it is now exploring perfect for hunting for signs of life

Sitting a mile below ground in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota is a gigantic cylinder holding 10 tons of purified liquid xenon closely watched by more than 250 scientists around the world. That tank of xenon is th...

South American mummies were likely brutally murdered 1,000 years ago, and the evidence is still preserved today, a new study finds.

After colliding with a tilted wall, air bubbles in water execute a backflip and hit the wall for a second time because they get caught in their own wake. These acrobatics could be harnessed for cleaning

Researchers reveal how participating in a group virtual reality experience can produce responses similar to those triggered by psychedelics.

An analysis of Swedish health records shows that people diagnosed with Alzheimer's before age 60 are more likely to have been treated for an infection in hospital more than five years earlier

Pulse compression is an important technology in modern radar systems and promotes the developments of modern radar technologies towards higher speed and ranging accuracy. The frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) si...

Since the earliest demonstration of chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) and optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA), femtosecond lasers have been able to deliver ultrahigh peak powers up to ten-petawatt (PW)...

"Soft matter" was first proposed by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes in his Nobel acceptance speech in 1991. The term describes materials between aqueous substances and ideal solids.

U.S. and European physicists have demonstrated a new method for predicting whether metallic compounds are likely to host topological states that arise from strong electron interactions.

A sophisticated technique that involves genetically modifying a person's immune cells has put five people with severe systemic lupus erythrematosus (SLE) into remission

A new study that reassesed decades of work of climate "tipping points" has revealed they are more numerous and closer to being triggered than researchers initially feared.

Over the past few decades, physicists and engineers have been trying to create increasingly compact laser-plasma accelerators, a technology to study matter and particle interactions produced by interactions between ultra...

Looking at DNA in a tissue sample is now all you need to accurately work out the age of almost any mammal, and this reveals something fundamental about ageing

The Artemis 1 mission will be a crucial test of NASA's next generation rocket

Everything you need to know about running in the rain as an experienced athlete or novice

From bloating to anxiety, these are some of the most common IBS symptoms to look out for

For thousands of years humans have destroyed forests. At the end of the last great ice age, an estimated 57 percent of the world's habitable land was forested.1 Since then, people in all regions of the world have burned ...

Whether looking out into space or peering deep into the microscopic realm, there is always more to see. In the case of solids, there is a world of atoms and particles teeming with activity that ultimately leads to useful...