The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

Electronic shelf labels, digital screens that display the price of an item, are replacing traditional paper price tags in grocery stores across America. "Digital price tags may enable Kroger and other ...

Electronic Arts, maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired for $55 billion, the biggest leveraged buyout attempt in history. Under the terms of the deal ...

DARPA's Digital Radio Frequency Battlespace Emulator, depicted here, could allow the U.S. military to more realistically test electronic warfare capabilities. (Colie Wertz, DARPA) The Pentagon’s ...

New electron microscopy technique enables precise atomic number mapping, revealing nanoscale hydrogen storage and defect dynamics in palladium. (Nanowerk News) A research team from National Taiwan ...

Crows are able to look at a handful of four-sided shapes and correctly distinguish those that exhibit geometric regularity from those that don't, according to a provocative new study. It's the first ...

Researchers have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure. The study reports the discovery of topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer -- trilayer ...

Solvay is pausing its plan to build an electronics-grade hydrogen peroxide plant near the growing semiconductor industry in Arizona. In 2022, the firm purchased a 100,000 m 2 site halfway between ...