Physics

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes midcalculation with a […]

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of decay of subatomic

An asteroid hurtling toward Earth could be deflected without a spacecraft ever touching it. The trick is using X-rays to

Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in top

Electric vehicles promise to help wean us off of fossil fuels, but they introduce a new problem: how to get

Bhavin Shastri still gets excited when he sees a laser pointer, and he’s been fascinated by them since he was

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view from a retrofitted

Either way you look at it, paper cutting is painful. Magazines, papers and books harbor a devious potential for small

The motion of moving electrons is captured like never before. Researchers have developed a laser-based microscope that produces images at

Scientists have just narrowed down the possible hiding spaces for dark matter particles. The LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, experiment has searched