Fermilab’s SQMS Center is on a mission to realize inherently scalable “qudit-based” quantum computing and quantum ...

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CP Snow’s classic The Two Cultures lecture, published in book form in 1959, is the usual go-to reference when exploring the ...

Acoustic oscillations in M67 stars reveal a surprising plateau in frequency patterns, providing a new tool to probe stellar ...

By adapting mathematical techniques used in particle physics, researchers in Germany have developed an approach that could ...

Waste biomass created by forestry work, crop production and wildfire mitigation is often simply burned, releasing the carbon ...

Trips to synchrotron facilities could become a thing of the past for some researchers thanks to a new laboratory-scale ...

Researchers in China have adapted the interlocking structure of mortise-and-tenon joints – as used by woodworkers around the ...

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Scientists who switch research fields suffer a drop in the impact of their new work – a so-called “pivot penalty”. That is according to a new analysis of scientific papers and patents, which finds ...

Those goals are probably as insanely ambitious as they sound, which is why my day-to-day work is a mix of complexity economics, monetary theory and economic anthropology. I spend a lot of time ...

Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum, according to a new study. What is more, astronomers may have ...