Death of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie came just weeks before the project he led achieved a breakthrough in fourth-generation ...

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

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Scientists at CERN have observed a rare phenomenon where a single top quark formed alongside W and Z bosons for the first ...

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A 12-year-old boy in 1953 received a phone call from a voice claiming to be an AI from the future. Decades later, he became a ...

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard parents say, “She’s just not a maths person”. We don’t say, “He’s not a reading ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

India, and a national institute of higher learning that fosters high-quality fundamental research in frontier disciplines of ...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis detected quantum phenomena, which had long remained purely ...

Scientists have upended long-held assumptions about thermal conductivity, revealing that boron arsenide crystals can conduct heat even better than diamond. Researchers at the University of Houston ...