Scientists Build Quantum Computer That Snaps Together Like LEGOs
By linking smaller superconducting modules like building blocks, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign achieved near-perfect qubit…
Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds | Physics
A quarter of state secondary schools in England will start the new term with no dedicated physics teacher,…
Humans could finally have found a way to defy Earth’s gravity
Gravity is a key component to human life on Earth – but can this powerful force be defied?…
Graphene reveals electrons that behave like frictionless fluid and break textbook rules
Top Left: 3D atomistic model of the graphene device. Bottom Left: Top view of the actual device, as…
Genetic tools identify lost human relatives from fossil records
Predicted phenotypic differences between AMHs, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI:…
Worlds Largest Neutrino Detector Is Collecting Data In China
To say that neutrinos aren’t the easiest particles to study would be a bit of an understatement. Outside…
Photochemistry and climate modeling of Earth-like exoplanets
Examples of potential Earth-like exoplanets. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech What role can the relationship between oxygen (O2) and ozone (O3)…
Study reveals the ‘just right’ population
Credit: npj Urban Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00254-4 The long-running debate over the ideal city size has an answer,…
Microalgae are more significant for COâ‚‚ absorption in Southern Ocean than previously thought, study reveals
At the end of the last ice age, algal blooms of the species Phaeocystis absorbed large quantities of…
Why the spiral pass had physicists’ heads spinning for decades : Short Wave : NPR
Monday night football is back! What better way to celebrate than a close look at some of the…
Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction
Characterization of NbOI2 nanocrystals Figure 1 a shows the crystal lattice of NbOI2. The lattice constants of NbOI2 are…
For the first time, scientists observed the ‘hidden swirls’ that affect the flow of sand, rocks and snow
The glass beads used in the bulldozing experiments and mapped with X-rays. Credit: Andrés Felipe Escobar Rincón What…