US researchers say they have built a laser system precise and powerful enough to control vast grids of atoms, a step they ...

Astronomer Daniel Jaffe has been appointed the next president of the Giant Magellan Telescope Corporation – the international consortium building the $2.5bn Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). He succeeds ...

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Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

Brane Audio, an Austin-based sound technology company, today unveiled its groundbreaking Repel-Attract Driver 2 (RAD2) at CES 2026. With a 30-fold advantage over conventional audio driver technology, ...

As we call time on the first quarter of the 21st century, I thought it might be a good opportunity to look back at some of the landmark moments that built the bridge between those two realities. As ...

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COMSOL Multiphysics version 6.4 accelerates engineering simulations and multiphysics models. Full GPU support across all physics delivers up to 5× speedups in benchmarks. COMSOL now supports GPU ...

The USS Enterprise was an impossible dream rendered in fiber glass. Designed for Star Trek, it looked like a creation straight out of creator Gene Roddenberry’s imagination: Twin nacelles—those long, ...