Quantum computing is moving fast, like way faster than I thought it would. Remember when it was just a science fiction idea?

Atomic nuclei are often described as orderly systems. Certain numbers of protons or neutrons, called magic numbers, usually ...

Quantum computing is entering a critical phase as researchers say scaling to millions of qubits is the biggest challenge and ...

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A new start-up called PsiThera has spun out of Roivant Sciences with $47 million and a computational drug discovery platform ...

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As three immigrants claim Nobel Prizes in science for the United States this year, experts warn that immigration crackdowns ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...

A new S&P Global Energy report highlights how explosive AI demand is making the physical electricity grid the single biggest ...

Scientists have discovered a new state of matter called a corralled supercooled liquid where atoms act like both solid and ...

In 2023, Canada's worst wildfire season on record produced so much smoke that it spilled across national borders into the ...