At the intersection of chemistry and physics, Claudia Felser explores topological materials, chirality and new routes to ...

Hidden mechanisms in extracellular DNA spotted by researchers at Aarhus University enable dormant viruses to become ...

Bo Xiong uses engineered noise and AI tools to expand the multiplexing capabilities of ultrathin optical structures called ...

More than 100 years on after Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize, some confusion remains around the committee's reasons for omitting relativity. On 9 November 1922, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences voted ...

In this second article in a series on philosophy and science, we take a look at dialectics and its relevance to understanding change in the natural world. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, ...

A pair of nuclear astrophysicists explore this question, assessing the risk of this outcome back when nuclear physics was still in its infancy. “Are you saying there’s a chance that when we push that ...

Vital to the fusion process and used in a wealth of technological applications, new research shows quantum tunneling is still delivering surprises. Among the most surprising and counter-intuitive ...

Innovative cryopreservation technique revives adult corals, safeguarding their genetic material to seed future populations. Coral reefs are under severe threat from warming oceans, risking extinction ...

The rapid growth of AI brings hope of unprecedented advancements in many sectors but what is its real carbon footprint? Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm, growing not only in ...

An AI made from plasma learns to play tic-tac-toe using varying and controllable mixtures of gases, in a major step forward. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is ubiquitous. Progress made over the last ...

Conflict between theory and observational evidence suggests a missing ingredient in our understanding of the early Universe. Einstein’s theory of general relativity, formulated in 1916, treats gravity ...

Scientists achieve groundbreaking room-temperature quantum coherence for 100 nanoseconds, propelling molecular qubits closer to practical quantum computing. Scientists have recently managed to ...