A qubit encoded in a fluorescent protein could act as a sensor to measure quantum properties inside living systems ...

It is Peer Review Week and the theme for 2025 is “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era”. This is not surprising given the rapid rise in the use and capabilities of artificial intelligence. However, ...

Stefano Mensaof the STFC Hartree Centre on how industry can use quantum computing to unlock opportunities for growth ...

But when he pitched the idea to his teenage son, Whiteson realized that approach was a bit boring and decided to spice things up using an alien landing. At the heart of the book is a new equation for ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) could help sniff out questionable open-access publications that are more interested in profit ...

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

David Silver of Google DeepMind thinks AIs that ‘learn by experience’ are the future of AI – but maybe not in particle ...

In their study, Zhao and Smalyukh created a space–time crystal in the nematic phase of a liquid crystal. In this phase the crystal’s rod-like molecules align parallel to each other and also flow like ...

Some highly intelligent human mathematicians certainly seem to think so, as Margaret Harris reports from the maths-and-computer-science-focused Heidelberg Laureate Forum ...

New finding advances our understanding of complex topological quantum systems and could help in the development of next-generation memory and storage devices ...

Combining nodal seismic networks with AI creates a high-resolution 3D model of the internal structure of an active volcano ...