21 July 2023
Newton’s first law of motion says that particles move in straight lines unless influenced by a force but a new experiment shows that the quantum version of that assumption fails for quantum particles of light
20 July 2023
Chemicals containing fluorine that are used in pharmaceuticals, fertilisers and batteries can now be made without the release of toxic hydrogen fluoride gas as part of the process
19 July 2023
A robot made of Lego can speed up and simplify building tiny structures out of DNA that could be used as biological machines
15 July 2023
A researcher won a bet by performing an experiment a colleague said wouldn't work. The result was the largest quasicrystal ever made
13 July 2023
The minuscule fluctuations of seemingly empty space can be controlled just enough to make the building blocks of a new type of computer
12 July 2023
A group of 51 superconducting qubits have been entangled inside a quantum computer, not just in pairs but in a complex system that entangles each qubit to every other one
5 July 2023
Driverless cars can use lasers to sense objects, but reflected light from nearby vehicles or bright sunlight can interfere. A system using entangled photons could help the vehicles avoid obstacles
3 July 2023
A plastic, wedge-shaped device could medical particle accelerators 100 times more efficient at generating the protons that can be used for cancer treatment
28 June 2023
By looking at electrical signals octopuses produce in their brain while asleep and awake, researchers have gathered some of the best evidence yet that the cephalopods dream
23 June 2023
A soft, tubular robot can bend, twist, expand and contract when exposed to different intensities of light
