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Scientists have designed a physical qubit that behaves as an error-correcting "logical qubit," and now they think they can ...

A satellite image of the Galápagos Islands' La Cumbre volcano shows lava seeping from the iguana-covered mountain days into ...

The great planetary instability, which saw Jupiter and the other gas giants wander chaotically through the solar system, ...

While researchers have paid a lot of attention to genetics, the best predictor of whether a child will develop eczema isn't ...

Bizarre worm that looks "like the rump of a pig from one side and Mick Jagger's lips from the other" may be in the middle of ...

Lasers have helped uncover ancient human-made structures the world over. Lasers are being used extensively in archaeology for ...

All fire-starting methods have a similar goal: generating enough heat to ignite a fuel source. When scraped together, flint and steel can generate this heat quickly because of the way the iron in the ...

There were other notable differences, too, including the maximum length of totality, which lasted about 2 minutes and 40 seconds in 2017, but up to 4 minutes 28 seconds in 2024. The width of the path ...

An environmental DNA analysis of soil collected at an ancient Maya ball court reveals that the site was once part of a ritual ...