John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for research on the weird world of sub-atomic quantum tunneling that advances the power of everyday ...
Nobel Prize winners show how superconducting circuits can exhibit quantum behavior, leading to transformative technologies.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was handed out to people for pulling off what Marvel writers only pretend to understand: ...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...
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In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have developed the same function independently on at least three separate occasions ...
Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Farmers compensate by adding nitrogen-rich fertilizers to their crops, which is expensive and harmful to the ...
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Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...
“Negative time” might sound like science fiction, but an international team of theorists and experimentalists has determined that a photon can, in fact, spend a negative amount of time in an excited ...