Harvard University historian Benjamin Wilson's piece in the Bulletin on Hans Bethe and Richard Garwin fails not because his historiography is provocative, but because his understanding of how ...

When Richard Feynman first conceived of quantum computers in the 1980s, he believed they should primarily investigate quantum phenomena. So that’s what a group of chemists did: they used quantum ...

When most people hear "polymer," they think of plastics. In our group, polymerization is a way to line up identical molecules like beads on a string and let quantum mechanics take over. Put magnetic ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer is remembered as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. She was born in Germany ...

Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...

Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it’s more difficult. This is something physicists from Poland and the UK are well aware of. To ...

Ken Claffey, CEO and President at VDURA, is a seasoned customer-centric business and product leader with deep expertise in cloud and enterprise infrastructure, hardware and software development, and ...

For years, the Prairie Pothole Region has bothered me in a very specific way. On a map, it looks like a normal landscape: ...

New ORCA results show Gemini leading in practical math, but no AI matches the consistency of a simple calculator.

Joshua Silver was comfortable in a successful IT job - but in his forties he had a major rethink, saw his pay plummet and ...

Black holes that turn matter into energy could explain dark energy and answer two other cosmic questions. Now, the challenge ...