A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

The amazing self-siphoning chain fountain actually works. Then I show you a chain that can actually get sucked down when you ...

A leading physics professor is calling for the Auditor-General to investigate the situation surrounding a taxpayer-funded ...

A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Argonne National Laboratory announced it has successfully deployed and is running a 12-qubit quantum dot device built by ...

Instead of superconducting circuits cooled to near absolute zero, photonic systems use light particles as qubits.

Erik Luijten, a McCormick associate dean and professor, will become Northwestern’s chief academic officer, succeeding ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...