It consists of three robotic arms, including a massive manipulator capable of lifting 60 tons, roughly equivalent to the ...

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...

Two decades after the Chernobyl accident, Tony Goddard believes that nuclear power must continue to be used to generate electricity Exactly 20 years ago this month, on 21 April 1986, workers at the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about perception, sensors and LIDAR for autonomous vehicles, drones and robots Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the ...

Matter is a lush tapestry, woven from a complex assortment of threads. Diverse subatomic particles weave together to fabricate the universe we inhabit. But a century ago, people believed that matter ...

Last week, inside a gold-plated drum in a Northern California lab, a group of scientists briefly recreated the physics that power the sun. Their late-night experiment involved firing 192 lasers into ...

BT and Toshiba have deployed an 'unhackable' quantum network that uses streams of photons to encrypt sensitive communications. A trial of the network, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will ...

Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles ...

It’s a long-running joke in the physicsworld.com newsroom that physicists see power laws everywhere. Indeed, a quick scan of the arXiv preprint server reveals physics papers that apply power-law ...