The ability to induce superconductivity in materials that are inherently semiconducting has been a longstanding research goal ...

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Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution ...

Researchers in Austria have entangled matter-based qubits with photonic qubits in a ten-ion system. The technique is scalable to larger ion-qubit registers, paving the way for the creation of larger ...

Speckle contrast optical spectroscopy provides a cost-effective way to assess cerebral blood flow for diagnosis of neurological disorders ...

The Navier–Stokes partial differential equation was developed in the early 19th century by Claude-Louis Navier and George ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has closed a third of its buildings since September (courtesy: NASA) NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) looks set to lose a big proportion of its budget as a ...

Like any major endeavour, designing and fabricating semiconductor chips requires compromise. As well as trade-offs between cost and performance, designers also consider carbon emissions and other ...

Ramping the resolution The QST research team with the new high-resolution PET scanner. From left to right: Hidekatsu Wakizaka ...

Sparks about to fly: Part of the experimental apparatus, showing the sample at the bottom and the counter-sample above it moments before the two come into contact. (Courtesy: Felix Pertl) Static ...