The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the country’s top science institute, has undergone an organisational overhaul, with more focus on strengthening frontier and basic research capabilities. New bureaus have been …
This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. His encoding had two key …
He then took part in a discussion with the NPC delegation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the People’s Armed Police Force on Thursday. Xi, who is also China’s …
Early one weekday evening in August of 2009, I hustled up an embankment outside Olympiastadion Berlin, trying to reach a flag vendor’s tent before the start of the evening session …
Panama’s Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a contract that gives a Canadian company the right to operate a copper mine for at least 20 years. The announcement Tuesday by the …
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. To catch a glimpse of the subatomic world’s unimaginably fleet-footed particles, you need to produce unimaginably brief flashes of light. …
Quantum Leap returns to NBC this week to catch up with Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee), a time-traveler who has no control over where or when he’s going to end …
All that Andrew McCalip wanted for his 34th birthday was a shipment of red phosphorus. It was a tough request—the substance happens to be an ingredient for cooking meth and …