Team closes in on ‘holy grail’ of room temperature quantum computing chips
To process information, photons must interact. However, these tiny packets of light want nothing to do with each other, each passing by without altering...
Study captures six galaxies undergoing sudden, dramatic transitions
Galaxies come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and brightnesses, ranging from humdrum ordinary galaxies to luminous active galaxies. While an ordinary galaxy...
‘Poor man’s qubit’ can solve quantum problems without going quantum
It may still be decades before quantum computers are ready to solve problems that today's classical computers aren't fast or efficient enough to solve,...
Study of ancient climate suggests future warming could accelerate
The rate at which the planet warms in response to the ongoing buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas could increase in the future, according...
Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze. The seas began to ice over at the Earth's...
Microbe chews through PFAS and other tough contaminants
In a series of lab tests, a relatively common soil bacterium has demonstrated its ability to break down the difficult-to-remove class of pollutants called...
Inequality: What we’ve learned from the ‘Robots of the late Neolithic’
Seven thousand years ago, societies across Eurasia began to show signs of lasting divisions between haves and have-nots. In new research published in the...
Comet’s collapsing cliffs and bouncing boulders
Scientists analyzing the treasure trove of images taken by ESA's Rosetta mission have turned up more evidence for curious bouncing boulders and dramatic cliff...
Emissions from cannabis growing facilities may impact indoor and regional air quality
The same chemicals responsible for the pungent smell of a cannabis plant may also contribute to air pollution on a much larger scale, according...
Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist
Neutron stars -- the compressed remains of massive stars gone supernova -- are the densest "normal" objects in the known universe. (Black holes are...
Scientists construct energy production unit for a synthetic cell
Scientists at the University of Groningen have constructed synthetic vesicles in which ATP, the main energy carrier in living cells, is produced. The vesicles...
