The 160-year-old Riemann hypothesis has deep connections to the distribution of prime numbers and remains one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics.
The Riemann hypothesis raised in 1859 is one of the six unsolved Millennium problems, and its...
Some physical systems, especially in the quantum world, do not reach a stable equilibrium even after a long time. An ETH researcher has now found an elegant explanation for this phenomenon.
If you put a bottle of beer in a...
The landing of NASA's Perseverance rover was another leap forward not only for space exploration but also for the technology that's powering the craft on its years-long mission on Mars—a thermoelectric generator that turns heat into electricity.
Looking for the...
University of Washington researchers have developed a method that uses a gaming graphics card to control plasma formation in their prototype fusion reactor.
Nuclear fusion offers the potential for a safe, clean and abundant energy source.
This process, which also occurs...
New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers.
MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type of superconductivity in a material called magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene. In a study appearing in...
Discovery of a short-lived state that could lead to faster and more energy-efficient computing devices.
Electronic circuits that compute and store information contain millions of tiny switches that control the flow of electric current. A deeper understanding of how these...
Researchers have found evidence for an anomalous phase of matter that was predicted to exist in the 1960s. Harnessing its properties could pave the way to new technologies able to share information without energy losses. These results are reported...
High temperature superconductivity is a grail of modern physicists. As room temperature superconductivity (RTS) has been reported recently in hydrides at megabar pressures, the grand challenge in superconductivity research and development is no longer restricted to further increasing the...
Study offers evidence, based on gravitational waves, to show that the total area of a black hole’s event horizon can never decrease.
There are certain rules that even the most extreme objects in the universe must obey. A central law...
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking quantum logic gate that brings quantum computing closer to reality.
Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has found a missing piece in the puzzle of optical quantum computing.
Jung-Tsung...
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have cooled a large, human-scale object to close to its motional ground state. Achieving this state involves super-cooling objects so that their atoms are at a near standstill allowing scientists to see objects at the scale...
