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An international team of researchers including physicists here in Durham have made a breakthrough that could help make our phones and computers faster and more energy efficient.

An international team of scientists has announced groundbreaking observations of GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded.

Researchers at the University of Hamburg and DESY have found clues to the elusive toponium. With this discovery, the fundamental structure of all matter could be deciphered in even greater detail.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded 24 Veni grants to TU Delft scientists in the various fields (ENS, AES, SSH). Each researcher will receive a maximum of 320,000 euros. The grant is an incentive for adventurous, talented and groundbreaking researchers to further develop their own research ideas over the next three years.

Six UT scientists have been awarded Veni grants of up to €320,000 from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Taking a look beneath the surface: Research team at the University of Münster makes hidden structural and magnetic properties visible To understand how electronic or magnetic properties of a material are related to its structure on the atomic scale, scientists use scanning tunnelling microscopy. As a rule, this limits them to investigating the uppermost atomic layer of a solid.

A team at Harvard and TU Wien have invented a new tunable laser that uses a series of rings to smoothly emit many light wavelengths from a single chip.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO observatories.

A new study from researchers at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo marks an important step in certifying Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) devices, crucial to enabling secure quantum communication technology.

Bárbara Malheiros defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on July 3.

Bárbara Malheiros defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry on July 3.

A Carnegie Mellon University-led team is receiving $5.4 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop technologies for transporting drug molecules in red blood cells. Abundant and persistent, red blood cells have a lifetime of about four months in the human body and travel to every organ and tissue.

Dr Cyril Bourgenot from our Centre for Advanced Instrumentation is part of a team developing cutting-edge technology to enable astronomers to look deeper into the Universe.

Shoulder instabilities are difficult to diagnose as they usually only occur when the shoulder joint is in motion.

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether in a physics class, in the lab, or in popular science writing, is left thinking something like, "Now, that is really weird." For some, this translates to weird and wonderful.

A Caltech-led team has developed a safe, effective, and painless breast imaging technique that incorporates machine learning</a> to help differentiate between suspicious and healthy tissue. The method has now been tested on patients and performs as well as or better than other conventional breast imaging techniques.</p> <p >For decades, X-ray mammography has been the gold standard of breast imaging for the early detection of breast cancer.

A new molecule co-developed by ANU chemists can store digital data at temperatures as cold as the moon at night.

Chi Nguyen remembers the moment she plugged her laptop into a large monitor in a conference room and onlookers began to cheer.

100 years of a theory that changed physics echoed in wide quantum diversity at ISTA 2025 marks the 100 jubilee of quantum mechanics. Despite its young age, the fast-growing and highly interdisciplinary Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is advancing broadly diverse areas of quantum research.

Light Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: 10:00 Yesterday, Monday (23 June), the QUICK³ nanosatellite was launched into space from Vandenberg, California, on a carrier rocket.

The 13th FLUXONICS workshop will bring together around 45 leading minds in superconducting circuit research from Japan, the USA, China and Europe with students and interested parties at TU Ilmenau from June 23 to 26, 2025.

The NSF-Doe Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first "mega" images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera-the largest in the world.

On Friday, 20 June, UT researcher Femke Witmans will defend her PhD research on nanowires: a promising material for quantum computers.

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what distinguishes four prominent telescopes? An overview.

With this new institute, the university aims to take the lead in bolstering Dutch and European technological sovereignty.

Researchers led by a team at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to create tiny droplets of one liquid inside another liquid without mixing the two together.

Imagine a world where quantum computing solves problems that even our most powerful supercomputers can't handle today.

How do we know exactly what is happening at a molecular level during extremely fast processes, such as burning during combustion? In less than the blink of an eye, one chemical compound and then another are present in a flame only to disperse and give way to more. Understanding which molecules are present gives scientists a way of understanding the inner workings of the chemical processes taking place.

The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our Sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the Sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to the most extreme objects in the universe-neutron stars and black holes.