Stress is a very real factor in the structure of our universe. Not the kind of stress that students experience when taking a ...

Today I came across a tech news article that nearly burned out my CPU! The Canadian company D-Wave claims that their quantum computer can complete a task that would take a supercomputer a million ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

Lauda and his colleagues solve some of the problems with topological qubits by using a class of theoretical particles they call neglectons, named for how they were derived from overlooked theoretical ...

National projects: Mark Carney announces the first five projects under Bill C-5, says reducing emissions from Alberta’s oil ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have detected a previously unknown quantum force capable of bending light in controlled lab simulations. This finding challenges our current understanding of ...

Dr Raj Nehru A few months before my father passed away, he called me one day and said he wanted to speak about something ...

The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration presents the loudest gravitational wave signal from two merging black holes, confirming ...

The latest breakthrough announced today, which tests an idea put forth by Stephen Hawking in 1971, would not have been ...

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Many theories are rock-solid: Scientists have just as much confidence in the theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, evolution, plate tectonics, and thermodynamics as they do in the statement that ...