At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

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Tucked away Illustration showing the position and size of the CONUS+ detector within the reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland.

Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

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Discovery could lift theoretical constraints on calculations achievable with certain types of topological quantum computers ...

Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...

From Bohemian solutions and binary battles to new parameters and novel experiments, the dark matter vs MOND clash rages on ...

NASA has successfully launched a mission to explore the interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields. The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...

New capability could make it easier to generate single pairs of entangled photons on demand using semiconductor quantum dots ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...