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There’s a mysterious energy quietly influencing your brain. Could it explain where your consciousness originates?

By applying voltage to electrically control a new "transistor" membrane, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National ...

French quantum computing company Pasqal is reportedly in talks to raise €200 million in a funding round that would value it ...

Fusion power moves closer to commercialization. Storing data for 10,000 years. Why AI won’t necessarily take your job. All that and more in this week’s edition of The Prototype.

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Reinhard Dörner explains: "In the quantum world, atomic nuclei are not tiny spheres that remain fixed in place. They are more like vibrating clouds. Even if we cool a molecule down to absolute zero, ...

The search space for protein engineering grows exponentially with complexity. A protein of just 100 amino acids has 20^100 ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each other in a bid to create the smallest QR code that can be reliably read.

The renowned physical chemist and environmental scientist on growing up in Romania and forging her career as a woman in the ...

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...