China has sent an "unbreakable" code from a satellite to the Earth, marking the first time space-to-ground quantum key distribution technology has been realized, state media said on Thursday. China launched the world's first quantum satellite last August, to help establish "hack-proof" communications, a development ...
European scientists have discovered a new subatomic particle containing a never-before-seen combination of quarks, the most basic building blocks of matter. The particle, a baryon dubbed Xi cc, contains two heavy "charm" quarks and one "up" quark, and has about four times the mass of ...
Chinese scientists have pulled off a major feat with one of the subatomic world's weirdest phenomena; photons that behave like twins and experience the same things simultaneously, even over great distances. The space-based technique developed by the researchers and reported Thursday in the journal Science ...
It is a sunny Tuesday morning in late March at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. The corridor from the reception area follows the long, curving glass curtain-wall that looks out over the visitors' parking lot to leafless trees covering a distant hill in ...
Scientists have invented a new kind of thin material that can cool a surface against the heat of the sun without using energy or typical air conditioning, a study said Thursday. The glass-polymer hybrid material measures just 50 micrometers thick — slightly thicker than aluminum ...
Earth's days are getting longer but you're not likely to notice any time soon — it would take about 3.3 million years to gain just one minute, according to a study published on Wednesday. Over the past 27 centuries, the average day has lengthened at ...
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics rewarded work that is merely one more step in the study of ordinary matter that has been going on for centuries.
A topologist is a person who cannot tell the difference between a coffee mug and a donut — so goes a joke about a little-known scientific field crowned Tuesday with a Nobel Prize in physics. The quip describes it perfectly: topology explains how a material's ...
Three British scientists behind groundbreaking research into exotic matter in the quantum world were on Tuesday jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Awarding the prize in two parts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences handed one half to David J. Thouless of the University ...
It is serendipity: from America to Viagra, history is full of great discoveries helped along by chance, as more than a century of Nobel prizes can attest. Among the chance discoveries that have been honored with the prestigious prize are X-rays (physics, 1901), penicillin (medicine, ...
Through experiments in Japan, a team of physicists has detected the possibility that a neutrino particle and its corresponding antiparticle may be slightly asymmetric, a finding that could shed light on the birth of the universe. The Japanese-led team presented the discovery from a probe ...
Recognition for the Japanese team that created element 113, which they have named nihonium, should remind the government and private sector of the importance of basic scientific research.
