“The level of control the authors have achieved over an individual antimatter particle is unprecedented,” says Dmitry Budker, ...

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Particle physics may have been an early adopter, but AI has now spread throughout physics. This shouldn’t be too surprising. Physics is data-heavy and computationally intensive, so it benefits from ...

A team led by ETH Zurich materials scientist Maksym Kovalenko has now developed an alternative image sensor based on lead halide perovskites. These crystalline semiconductor materials have the ...

In atom-based quantum technologies, motion is seen as a nuisance. The tiniest atomic jiggle or vibration can scramble the delicate quantum information stored in internal states such as the atom’s ...

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Although it hasn’t detected dark matter yet, its developers say it offers an alternative path that is worth exploring ...

Topological insulators are materials that behave as insulators in their interior but support the flow of electrons along their edges or surfaces. These edge states are protected against weak disorder, ...

A shortage of data is hampering efforts to establish the role of climate change in extreme-weather events in the tropics and ...

New analysis of satellite altimetry data reveals that trapped waves called seiches were responsible for anomalous seismic ...

Precision medicine is a fast-growing field whereby medical treatments are tailored to individual patients – taking factors like genetics and lifestyle into account. A key part of this process is ...

Self-assembling microrobots can be magnetically delivered, manoeuvred and retrieved after targeted delivery of their therapeutic cargo ...