Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on the collaboration that led them to the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award.

A lab accident in 1916 led to a breakthrough in crystal growth. Jan Czochralski's method for creating pure silicon crystals ...

Scientists in Japan have developed a new way to instantly detect elusive quantum “W states,” a major milestone for quantum technology. The breakthrough could help unlock faster quantum communication, ...

I ate 1,000 sardines in a month and two bizarre things happened: I smelled and obtained a strange superpower. New science ...

The vast amount of misinformation circulating in public health is largely due to not understanding evidence-based science.

Alex Poirot, along with Chief Scientist Adam Fincham, were the engineers behind Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch; Poirot talks about the creation of that wave, and the future of manmade wave pools.

UW–Madison’s 2026 Awards for Mentoring Undergraduates honor faculty, staff and graduate students whose research mentorship ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward ultra-secure quantum communication by demonstrating a remarkably stable quantum encryption system that worked across more than 120 kilometers of optical fiber ...

A nanocrystal is an extraordinarily tiny piece of material—composed of anywhere from a few to a few thousand atoms—in which ...

Shoulder season in Aspen is the ultimate fake-out. You leave the house under bluebird skies, the next hour brings a quick ...

TPU researchers, as part of an international scientific group, have proposed a way to increase the efficiency of pyrolysis of ...

Over a century ago, a botanist named Daniel Trembly MacDougal injected salt solutions into plant ovaries and reported that the procedure changed the hereditary material passed on to offspring. Both ...