Many physicists work for small-to-medium-sized companies that provide scientific instrumentation and services – and some have founded companies of their own. Such businesses can have limited resources ...

Quantum Machines introduces the OPX1000 platform, a scaled up system with very high channel density for error-free quantum computing ...

Researchers at Princeton University in the US say they have made the first direct observation of a Wigner crystal – a ...

According to the researchers’ theoretical calculations and modelling, this mechanism involves atomic sites in the material lattice that are missing oxygen atoms. These native oxygen vacancies, as they ...

Following almost three decades of planning and construction the world’s highest observatory has begun operations. The ...

A novel detector designed to search for so-called “dark” photons has placed unprecedented constraints on where this type of ...

Researchers Finland say they are the first to determine the state of a superconducting qubit using a bolometer – a device ...

Stanley’s focus soon sweeps out to explore the rest of the solar system. Though we can’t send probes to the centres of other planets, clues to their interior composition sometimes fall at our feet in ...

Researchers discover that operating close to a phase transition produces optimal error suppression in so-called cat qubits ...

The lack of observed gamma rays from a recent supernova has cast doubt on the generally-accepted idea that exploding stars ...

Strong, light and with amazing electronic properties, graphene has always been touted as the “wonder material”. But two decades after it was first isolated, James McKenzie believes the graphene is ...

Sensing platform uses magnetized hydrogels and a smartphone’s magnetometer to measure glucose concentration in test samples ...