The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery ...
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...
When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...
A single speck of light—captured inside a lab at Oxford—turned the abstract into the tangible. It didn’t just win a prize; it showed that we ...
New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...
Scientists at OIST have, for the first time, directly tracked the elusive “dark excitons” inside atomically thin materials.
Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...
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In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...
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