Although it is the best known elemental fermion, the electron has not finished revealing all its secrets to scientists. After...
Google researchers in Santa Barbara, California, say their advance may lead to near-term applications of quantum computers. iStock.com/JHVEPhoto By Adrian...
Life isn’t always easy for astrophysicists: just when they’ve figured out another aspect of the patterns of movement in our...
As far as hypothetical space megastructures go, the stellar engine is one of our favourites – a gigantic contraption built...
Functional Wormhole A team of physicists has a plan to build a functional wormhole that could work like a bridge...
When an egg cell of almost any sexually reproducing species is fertilized, it sets off a series of waves that...
In his box, Schrödinger’s cat is simultaneously in two states: alive and dead. It is only by opening the box...
There’s a hole in the story of how our universe came to be. First, the universe inflated rapidly, like a...
The formation of galaxies is a complex dance between matter and energy, occurring on a stage of cosmic proportions and...
We know that the realm of quantum physics is science operating at a mind-bogglingly small scale, thus watching quantum interactions...
The Earth, solar system, the entire Milky Way and the few thousand galaxies closest to us move in a vast...
Physics experts are working at Europe’s CERN lab to create a basic ventilator for mild coronavirus sufferers and recovering patients,...