Minnesotans and others around the country got a rare treat on Nov. 11 with an aurora borealis supercharged by the sun.

Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of ...

Aalto University researchers have developed a method to execute AI tensor operations using just one pass of light. By encoding data directly into light waves, they enable calculations to occur ...

The future of computing has arrived in a flash, literally. In A Nutshell Researchers created a computer that performs complex ...

New Avengers Doomsday Doctor Strange details revealed! Benedict Cumberbatch has confirmed that he is going to be in Avengers ...

Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of ...

A single-photon switch uses a quantum emitter, such as a quantum dot or a superconducting qubit, coupled to a nanophotonic ...

Ars Technica: The Voyager Golden Record is perhaps the best known example of humans attempting to communicate with an alien species, spearheaded by the late Carl Sagan, among others. But what are the ...

Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast ...