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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that electrons can be fired across solar cell materials in just 18 ...

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A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

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Scientists discover that giant columns of softer ice within the Greenland ice sheet behave like pasta boiling, due to ...

A new room-temperature quantum device developed at Stanford uses twisted light and advanced materials to link photons and electrons. Modern quantum computers are typically large, costly systems that ...

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

Nearly all modern display technologies, even the best TVs, have a problem: motion blur. This is the blurring of fast-moving objects as they move across the screen. TV manufacturers have developed ...

The NHRA stepped in to stop this street car as it was too fast for the drag strip.

Albert Einstein once said, “Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.” He was describing the law of conservation of energy, ...