Computers, smartphones, GPS: quantum physics has enabled many technological advances. It is now opening up new fields of research in cryptography (the art of coding messages) with the aim of developi… [+5661 chars]
Tiny flecks of white dot a section of crumbly rocks along Texas's Brazos River. To a casual observer, the grains may seem like unremarkable bits of sand, but within their oddball shapes lie clues to … [+8057 chars]
China plans to open its new space station up to 'tourism' within the next decade - sparking what the country hopes is a race to compete with the likes of private American space tourists such as Jeff … [+10391 chars]
Some scientists say that our universe could just be one side of the coin. The other side is something they call the “anti-universe”. It’s basically a hypothetical mirror universe where time moves bac… [+3428 chars]
Artist’s impression of odd radio circles. It is thought to take the rings 1 billion years to reach the size we see them today. The rings are so big (millions of light years across), they’ve expanded … [+5886 chars]
NASA has confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. The US space agency has added another 65 exoplanets to the online NASA Exoplanet Archi… [+7565 chars]
Earth has been punched in the face by asteroids before. It has seen everything from undetectable rock shards that burn up in the atmosphere to the monster-oid that triggered a mass extinction 66 mill… [+4146 chars]
The study, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Estatal Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Júlio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University) (UNESP) of Brazil are … [+4627 chars]
A materials scientist with a yeast allergy set out to make a yeast-free pizza dough that still rises like a classic Neapolitan pie. Now, in a new paper published March 22 in the journal Physics of F… [+3841 chars]
A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown pha… [+2957 chars]
Tiny flecks of white dot a section of crumbly rocks along Texas's Brazos River. To a casual observer, the grains may seem like unremarkable bits of sand, but within their oddball shapes lie clues to … [+8057 chars]
A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown pha… [+2957 chars]
