Borrowing from industry, the team has created its vertexing detector using an array of modified mobile-phone camera sensors (see figure). Gautieri had already used this approach to measure the ...

A ceremony has been held today to officially open the Ray Dolby Centre at the University of Cambridge. Named after the ...

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Andy Brown at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts discusses the growing impact of AI and machine-learning ...

Ji-Seon Kim talks about the transformative potential of carbon-based semiconductors and the benefits of tangible experiences ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light: The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Seismic wave measurements suggest the supervolcano beneath the popular national park is unlikely to erupt any time soon ...

When an ordinary beam of neutrons strikes the team’s silicon grating, the millions of scored lines on the grating convert the ...

Now, researchers in the US and South Korea have used a neutron beam to differentiate between genuine antique coins and fakes.

Emma Chapman reviews Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper Before the bang That the universe evolved from a "hot Big Bang" is not in question, ...