Victoria Grinberg, who is the first “liaison scientist” at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, talks to Hamish Johnston about...

Retractions and allegations of scientific misconduct have hampered recent progress in high-temperature superconductivity, as Michael Banks reports ...

IntroductionPeter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a...

Researchers in the US have shown that the shape of microplastic fibres allows them to travel further in the air than...

IntroductionThis morning, when the sun came up, billions of humans opened their eyes and admitted into their bodies a shaft of light from space....

Join the audience for a live webinar at 4 p.m. BST/5 p.m. CEST on 26 October 2023 exploring the properties and...

Join the audience for a live webinar at 4 p.m. GMT/11 a.m. EST on 9 November 2023 exploring how to build...

Scientists in Ukraine are still in survival mode following Russia’s invasion of the country, but as Ethan van Woerkom finds out,...

Sept. 25, 2023 — MIT researchers report they have  demonstrated a novel superconducting qubit architecture that can perform operations between qubits with greater accuracy,...

Sept. 25, 2023 — MIT researchers report they have  demonstrated a novel superconducting qubit architecture that can perform operations between qubits with greater accuracy,...

Researchers in the US have integrated ultralow-noise lasers and photonic waveguides onto a single chip...

IntroductionIn August 2013, dozens of renowned theoretical physicists gathered in Santa Barbara, California, to discuss a crisis. Their tenuous understanding of black holes was...