Researchers at OIST built a graphite disk that levitates and spins for hours in a vacuum, showing how perfect magnetic ...

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When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi—the "father of metal-organic frameworks," or MOFs—along with Susumu ...

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...

It’s a little complicated to weigh a dying person on a hospital bed, but that didn’t matter to Duncan MacDougall. In the ...

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Physicists in Australia and Britain have reshaped quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle – a result that could underpin future ...

In a stunning leap for quantum optics, scientists have generated ultrafast light pulses whose quantum uncertainty can be ...

When a good die fails test and gets scrapped, often no one notices, because false failures look identical to real ones. Yet across the industry, these phantom defects are quietly eroding yield, ...

Optus' network was set up for failure from the moment it embarked on an upgrade that severed Australians' access to the triple-zero system. Chief executive Stephen Rue has outlined the causes of the ...

Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

The 2025 college football season began with a significant upset that surprised one of the top programs’ fan bases. The No. 14 Alabama Crimson Tide, who were ranked in the top 10 in the preseason, lost ...