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Physicists searching for “dark forces” unexpectedly discovered deformed atomic nuclei. When top research teams collaborate, ...

Quantum spin 1Professor Valerio Scarani (left) and Mr Lin Htoo Zaw (right) flanking a spinning 'wheel of fortune'. (Photo: ...

Using a process known as quantum annealing, the researchers have provided a proof-of-concept method to study the dynamics of ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...