Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

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Advanced energy technology group AMPERA announced the company has completed production of what it called the first full-scale ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

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Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced ...

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The approach is known for high accuracy, but scaling it up while preserving that accuracy is technically difficult. Helios ...

NASA's upgraded Cold Atom Lab came back online aboard the International Space Station this week — the fourth and final hardware overhaul of a facility that has spent eight years turning the ISS into ...

These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its ...

Los Alamos, New Mexico, became the secret hub of the Manhattan Project during World War II, leading to the creation of the atomic bomb and sparking decades of controversy.