Nicole Zaino should have been working on her Ph.D. qualifying exam. It was 2019, her second year as a graduate student in the ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

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A new AI framework called THOR is transforming how scientists calculate the behavior of atoms inside materials. Instead of relying on slow simulations that take weeks of supercomputer time, the system ...

In quantum mechanics, the idea that quantum information can’t be duplicated is ironclad – or at least, it was. A surprising approach to backing up qubits, the basic units of quantum computers, appears ...

In his latest video, a self-professed “science nerd” and amateur high-energy physicist shows us what happens when you give a ...

Matthew Rodriguez is a digital producer for CBS Los Angeles. He's previously reported for local outlets like the Argonaut and Pasadena Weekly. Matt typically covers breaking news and crime. A ...

A Caltech research scientist known for groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting under investigation in the Antelope Valley, officials confirmed on ...

Amber Dance is a freelance science writer near Los Angeles, California. Walk into a big academic library, and chances are you’ll enter a hushed space with soaring ceilings. “It’s like going into a ...

Mulugeta Bekele is almost single-handedly responsible for having kept Ethiopian physics going in the 1970s and 1980s despite being imprisoned and tortured by the Ethiopian military. Robert P Crease ...

The British-American theoretical physicist Anthony Leggett died on 8 March at the age of 87. Leggett shared the 2003 Nobel ...

A researcher hoping to debunk a strange illness targeting American spies and diplomats over the past decade tested a secret microwave weapon on himself - and ended up suffering neurological damage and ...