Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

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Discovery could lift theoretical constraints on calculations achievable with certain types of topological quantum computers ...

At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...

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A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

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Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...