The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

A preliminary analysis suggests that industrially useful quantum computers designs come with a broad spectrum of energy ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

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Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex ...

Working with three-dimensional pancreatic models (organoids), derived from mouse cells, researchers combined computer simulations with experiments to find out what controls the shape of lumens ...

Instead of superconducting circuits cooled to near absolute zero, photonic systems use light particles as qubits.