For a while, in the Middle Ages, there was a real craze for trying to turn unassuming lead into pure, gleaming gold.

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A way to greatly enhance the efficiency of a method for correcting errors in quantum computers has been realized by theoretical physicists at RIKEN. This advance could help to develop larger, more ...

Until now, atoms have never been imaged interacting freely in space, but a new technique known as non-resolved microscopy has ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers have discovered that strand separation may take more mechanical force than the field previously believed.

MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...