Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just ...

Teachers are wearily getting on with the reformed Leaving Cert, but there are some things they just can’t do – like stopping ...

A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum technology is advancing quickly, and that the major obstacles now involve ...

This Friday roundup explores bio-inspired and digital materials technology, robotic nanofabrication, and tunable metasurfaces ...

The space industry is gaining strong momentum in 2025, supported by rising global security needs, demand for faster satellite communication and growing collaboration between governments and private ...

The overwhelming contributor to energy consumption in AI processors is not arithmetic; it’s the movement of data.

Water is usually treated as a background player in physics, chemistry, and climate science, but a growing body of research ...

A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

China’s Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) in November reported it had achieved thorium-to-uranium fuel conversion ...

We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the ...

As bispecifics, ADCs, protein degraders, and AI-designed mini-proteins move into the clinic, discovery teams face a new ...

Purdue University researchers have demonstrated what they call a “photonic transistor” that operates at single-photon intensities. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, ...