A good scientist must be willing to be wrong. In 1964, the occasionally enigmatic but always energetic physicist, Dr. Richard Feynman gave a lecture at Cornell University to a packed hall of... Read more
“A completely new way may open up of using heat in microchips in a beneficial way instead of having to dissipate it by cooling” Since its invention 50 years ago, laser light has... Read more
As Douglas Adams said, “Space is Big. Really Big.” And that’s the major obstacle for traveling between the stars. But a new proposal published in the Journal of the British Interplanet... Read more
Physicists say they can make money that can’t be copied—at least in theory Since the invention of paper money, counterfeiters have churned out fake bills. Some of their handiwork, cre... Read more
Aisha’s invention is so promising that her university’s staff aided with a patent application 19-year-old Egyptian physics student Aisha Mustafa is someone we may see agai... Read more
Researchers have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance Scientists at IBM Research have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance that may acce... Read more
Engineers can now begin work on creating a quantum computer Scientists at IBM Research today said they have achieved a major advance in quantum computing that will allow engineers to... Read more
Guaranteeing that the user’s data remain perfectly private Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and h... Read more
A perfect vacuum is impossible to achieve, at least in theory. As anyone with any interest in quantum physics would know, the vacuum is full of various particles that fluctuate in and... Read more
Not One, Not Two, Not Three, but Four Clones Xi-Jun Ren and Yang Xiang from Henan Universities in China, in collaboration with Heng Fan at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of... Read more
The superfast computers of tomorrow will likely be able to manipulate individual electrons, harnessing their charge and magnetism to achieve massive data storage and outstanding processing s... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Little Shop Of Physics A Colorado State University professor has discovered how to get teens excited about science. Jones’ Little Shop of Physics consists of 200 ex... Read more
Until this year, all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics. Back in March, however, a group of researchers designed a gadget that moves in ways that can... Read more