Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

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At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...

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Tucked away Illustration showing the position and size of the CONUS+ detector within the reactor in Leibstadt, Switzerland.

The space scientist Michele Dougherty from Imperial College London has been appointed the next Astronomer Royal – the first ...

A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

People Opinion and reviews Richard Muller: ‘Physics stays the same. What changes is how the president listens’ Robert P Crease talks to Richard Muller, author of Physics for Future Presidents ...

Discovery could lift theoretical constraints on calculations achievable with certain types of topological quantum computers ...

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Evaluating electrocardiogram (ECG) traces using a new deep-learning model known as EchoNext looks set to save lives by ...