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Shapes created by vortices in water often fall apart, but an odd quantum fluid made from ultracold atoms could support vortex ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside ...

A long-forgotten sci-fi series premiered on NBC 30 years ago this month, but it paved the way for some of the shows that came after it.

After launching at 9:29 p.m. EST Nov. 4, the SpaceX Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station at 9:52 a.m. EST ...

The use of quantum error correction techniques is supposed to help us get out of the Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) ...

Tech giants' seemingly high valuations may actually understate their true worth as artificial intelligence reshapes the ...

W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...

This development could open doors to new possibilities in quantum sensing technologies ... of Technology and at the University of Magdeburg, Germany, made a big leap as they demonstrated a ...

There’s just one catch: every atom in your body would be fully disassembled to the quantum level, effectively leaving your ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

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