Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

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Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The significant breakthrough means that, for the ...

As the technologies we use become more quantum in nature, it follows that everyone should have a basic understanding of ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, ...

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

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Our minds are impressive biological machines, but like any machine, things can go awry. One of the biggest psychological spanners to be thrown into our brainworks is chronic stress. These ...

Physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting ... This work was supported, in part, by National Science Foundation through the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold ...

"When you see pictures like these, it's showing in a photograph, an object that was discovered in the mathematical world," says MIT physicist Richard Fletcher. "So it's a very nice reminder that ...