New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ordered to classical and chaotic ...

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Photographers Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu have beaten thousands of amateur and professional photographers from around the world to bag the 2025 Royal Observatory Greenwich’s ZWO Astronomy ...

A qubit encoded in a fluorescent protein could act as a sensor to measure quantum properties inside living systems ...

Stefano Mensa of the STFC Hartree Centre on how industry can use quantum computing to unlock opportunities for growth ...

It is Peer Review Week and the theme for 2025 is “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era”. This is not surprising given the rapid rise in the use and capabilities of artificial intelligence. However, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) could help sniff out questionable open-access publications that are more interested in profit ...

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Some highly intelligent human mathematicians certainly seem to think so, as Margaret Harris reports from the maths-and-computer-science-focused Heidelberg Laureate Forum ...

But when he pitched the idea to his teenage son, Whiteson realized that approach was a bit boring and decided to spice things up using an alien landing. At the heart of the book is a new equation for ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

In their study, Zhao and Smalyukh created a space–time crystal in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal. In this phase the crystal’s rod-like molecules align parallel to each other and also flow like ...