A team of scientists at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have come up with a new design for a magnetic levitation-based ...

Most of the big ideas in science have the decency to confine themselves to one or two disciplines. Evolution is strictly in the biological realm. E=mc 2 wouldn't be caught dead outside physics. And ...

Like a stretched rubber band, most materials become narrower in cross section when extended. A few materials, however, unexpectedly get fatter when stretched. Researchers have now discovered an ...

On Thursday, the startup IonQ announced that the next generation of its ion-trap quantum computer was ready for use. The new machine marks a major jump for the company, going from 11 qubits up to 32.

You’re moving, or maybe you’ve just got a lot of stuff, and you need to rent out a storage container—but you have no real sense for how much storage you need. Keep reading, because understanding the ...

Researchers have provided a new estimate for the glacier ice volume all around the world, excluding the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Their conclusion: previous calculations overestimated the ...