Researchers in the US are first to show how a melting ice disc can quickly propel itself across a patterned surface in a manner reminiscent of the Leidenfrost effect. Jonathan Boreyko and colleagues ...

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At high temperatures and pressures, molten carbon has two options. It can crystallize into diamond and become one of the ...

Chalsani talks about the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre technology campus that being developed on the ...

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New findings help meteorologists better understand the physical mechanisms driving climate change, particularly the role of ...

A series of events called the Quantum Fringe has enabled everyone from school students and the interested public to ...

Discovery could lift theoretical constraints on calculations achievable with certain types of topological quantum computers ...

The space scientist Michele Dougherty from Imperial College London has been appointed the next Astronomer Royal – the first ...

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Evaluating electrocardiogram (ECG) traces using a new deep-learning model known as EchoNext looks set to save lives by ...

Ultraclean monolayer amorphous carbon can be used to generate high-current, low-scattering proton treatment beams ...