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How a tiny little electronic switch sparked the computer revolution.

Star, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole's rotation.

How the joule thief circuit “steals” energy from seemingly depleted power cells.

Observatories have been built in mines, deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, and elsewhere in an effort to detect the fleeting particles.

“It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”

We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree.

Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.

From how galaxies form to the beginnings of the universe, the images from the space telescope are giving cosmologists new data to explore—and theories to build out.

Companies are making sure we have a surplus of options for building qubits.

Black holes eject powerful energy jets that blow away the surrounding gas to great distances. So how can they continue to grow?

Never mind the “heat death of the universe.” Entropy is just a bridge between two levels of reality.

A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons.

New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.

It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.

Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.

The Earth may not be that massive, but it still distorts space-time.

A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its fiery demise.

A study based on 47 million galaxies found that the cosmic web retains patterns on enormous scales, which could force a reevaluation of a pillar of cosmology.

Planning a Fourth of July getaway? Use less gas—and cut your emissions—by easing up on the pedal.