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At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

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Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

Researchers at USTC in China turned to microwave-based error correction to achieve a distance-7 logical qubit, much like ...