Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

At the same time, the researchers also published a paper in Nature and a “ road map ” for further work. The design of the Majorana 1 processor is supposed to fit up to a million qubits, which may be ...

The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification requirement to view internet porn in Texas.

We reached out to New Mexico State University to inquire about the history of the Hobbes archive but did not receive a response. The earliest record we've found of the Hobbes archive online is this ...

Forget the ice chest. Bring the full power of a portable refrigerator on your next outing into the wilds.

In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two consecutive summers of brutal heat and drought have left some parts of Texas with notably low ...

Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country’s development goals, slow economic growth, and heighten health risks, new research shows.

The literally unprecedented indictment against Donald Trump marks an outright dangerous—and politically fraught—moment for the United States and serves as a reminder of the unparalleled level of ...

The energy crisis is not a deal breaker in Europe’s nuclear debate, but in some countries it is boosting the pro-nuclear side of the argument, says Lukas Bunsen, head of research at consultancy Aurora ...

Electric vehicles have never been more popular. Just about every automaker is in the midst of an electrification effort, spurred on by impending government regulations around the world aimed at ...

Open-internet advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after a recent election for the International Telecommunications Union's top leadership.