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Why the quantum internet should be built in space
The best way to distribute quantum entanglement around the globe is via a massive constellation of orbiting satellites, physicists say. → Read More
A virtual version of da Vinci’s mystery glass orb has helped explain its weirdness
The world’s costliest painting depicts a glass sphere with curious optical properties. Computer scientists figured out what the artist was getting at. → Read More
Is 3D printing the future of battery design?
The technology promises smaller, more capable batteries that can be integrated into products—and, perhaps, designed with recycling in mind. → Read More
Tidal forces carry the mathematical signature of gravitational waves
The idea is something of a technicality, but nevertheless an interesting one. → Read More
Does tapping the bottom of a beer can really stop it fizzing over?
Dedicated researchers have the answer. → Read More
A nanotube material conducts heat in just one direction
Asymmetric conductors could revolutionize cooling systems for computers and other devices. → Read More
A new way to make quadratic equations easy
Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need. → Read More
A new way to make quadratic equations easy
Many former algebra students have painful memories of struggling to memorize the quadratic formula. A new way to derive it, overlooked for 4,000 years, is so simple it eliminates the need. → Read More
How a tabletop experiment could test the bedrock of reality
By playing with quantum entanglement, physicists hope to probe their ideas about quantum gravity. → Read More
How a tabletop experiment could test the bedrock of reality
By playing with quantum entanglement, physicists hope to probe their ideas about quantum gravity for the first time. → Read More
Machine learning has revealed exactly how much of a Shakespeare play was written by someone else
Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and who actually wrote them. → Read More
Can photonic chips save Bitcoin?
Cryptocurrencies are famously energy hungry. So some researchers say the answer is a more energy-efficient form of computing. → Read More
Logjams aren’t really jammed at all, say geoscientists
The first study of the way logs become pinned in rivers reveals that those seemingly trapped in a logjam move steadily, if slowly, downriver. → Read More
Where do humans live? A new map offers more detail than ever before.
Human settlements are the cause and consequence of most environmental and societal changes on Earth. The World Settlement Footprint pinpoints them with unprecedented accuracy. → Read More
How to turn the complex mathematics of vector calculus into simple pictures
Feynman diagrams revolutionized particle physics. Now mathematicians want to do the same for vector calculus. → Read More
A natural biomolecule has been measured acting in a quantum wave for the first time
Physicists have watched a chain of 15 amino acids interfere with itself, in an experiment that paves the way for a new era of quantum biology. → Read More
Welcome to robot university (only robots need apply)
Want your robot to learn a new task? Then send it to RoboNet, a vast video database that could one day teach it anything. → Read More
How China built a single-photon detector that works in space
China’s quantum communication satellite Micius has notched up an impressive series of breakthroughs thanks to powerful photon detectors that outwit background noise. → Read More
The scientists who are creating a bio-internet of things
The internet of things connects devices across the globe. Now researchers are considering how bacteria can join the network. → Read More
A neural net solves the three-body problem 100 million times faster
Machine learning provides an entirely new way to tackle one of the classic problems of applied mathematics. → Read More