Scientists have shown they can extend the lifetime of a molecular qubit by changing the surrounding crystal’s structure to be less symmetrical. The asymmetry protects the qubit from noise, enabling…
TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of a star 39 light-years from Earth and may have water and clouds, as depicted in this artist’s impression. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
We’re one step closer to a future of near-limitless clean energy. Physicists in Germany just found a way to minimize a major heat-loss problem plaguing a promising kind of nuclear…
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first batch of coloured scientific photos, which NASA has made public. Incredible photos collected by the much awaited James Webb…
Artistic representation of a supernova's light echoes. (Mehau Kulyk/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The last screams of light emitted by a dying star have been preserved in a series of eerily…
The first publicly released science-quality image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, revealed on July 11, 2022, is the deepest infrared view of the universe to date. (Image credit: NASA,…
The strong nuclear force is one of the four fundamental forces of nature and is responsible for holding the protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom. It…
Mikhail Leonov/Shutterstock One of the weirder aspects of quantum mechanics could be explained by an equally weird idea – that causation can run backwards in time as well as forwards.…
An artist’s illustration of a black hole. The black hole is over 1 billion light-years away. A team of astronomers has found a unique black hole that is shooting a…
We only get to see roughly 0.5% of the earth from where we live on the surface. One of the greatest mysteries of our planet is the solid iron core,…
Simulation of a warped and spinning black hole. (Yukterez/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) A new kind of black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive…
JWST's image of Chamaeleon I. (NASA, ESA, CSA, and M. Zamani/ESA/Webb, F. Sun/Steward Observatory, Z. Smith/Open University, and the Ice Age ERS Team) JWST's unparalleled ability to peer into the…
If you check in regularly to ScienceAlert, you'll be familiar with quite a few stunning space images, but a newly published picture has to be one of the best yet:…
(Qi Yang/Getty Images) 'Spin' is a fundamental quality of fundamental particles like the electron, invoking images of a tiny sphere revolving rapidly on its axis like a planet in a…
This illustration shows what the Centaur Chariklo and its rings could look like, based on our current understanding. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)) The most comprehensive plans…
The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes. Not so long ago, we lived in a…
UC Santa Cruz astronomer Garth Illingworth, former Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, has had a hell of a career. He's dedicated decades to the pursuit of finding…
This experimental setup shows an ultra-low-power wireless communications device that could one day be used in tiny remote sensors. Credit: Zerina Kapetanovic, CC BY-ND A new ultra-low-power method of communication…
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