Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

China has quietly built a machine that bends one of the most stubborn limits in physics research: gravity itself. By pushing ...

When matter collides with antimatter, both vanish in a powerful energy burst. Scientists explain who truly wins this cosmic ...

A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...

All 16 departments told the admissions committee on Wednesday that they want to either admit students through department-led ...

Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

D-Wave Quantum , a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the world's first commercial supplier of quantum computers, and Quantum Circuits Inc., a leading developer of ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have uncovered previously unobserved oscillation ...

Somehow, even without silicon, this star was surrounded by dust. The dust grains were made almost entirely of iron. This has ...

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Figure skating has been a key part of the Olympics, even before the first Winter Games in 1924. The sport now includes men's ...