The drone-like rotorcraft, which is designed to land on and gather samples from Titan, has been hit by a two-year delay, with ...

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...

George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...

Vacuum tunnelling – an exotic process by which empty space can become temporarily filled with virtual particles when an ...

The Dutch manufacturer Delft Circuits is rewriting the rules of I/O cabling technology for full-stack quantum computing ...

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The researchers found that a slightly curved meniscus allows more wave energy to pass through the barrier. Conversely, if the meniscus curves more steeply, it reduces the energy transported by the ...

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

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

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