Even if the Milky Way and Andromeda don’t collide in the next 10 billion years, though, that won’t be the end of the story.

Those goals are probably as insanely ambitious as they sound, which is why my day-to-day work is a mix of complexity economics, monetary theory and economic anthropology. I spend a lot of time ...

Scientists who switch research fields suffer a drop in the impact of their new work – a so-called “pivot penalty”. That is according to a new analysis of scientific papers and patents, which finds ...

Trips to synchrotron facilities could become a thing of the past for some researchers thanks to a new laboratory-scale ...

As the technologies we use become more quantum in nature, it follows that everyone should have a basic understanding of ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

Mike Follows reviews World Without End: an Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe ...

New research explains previous contradictory observations in terms of “topological blocking”, which may occur in other ...

Oscillating conductance This measurement on the middle quantum dot shows how the bulk gap in the system can be created and removed. This control is important for the manipulation and protection of ...

Researchers in China have adapted the interlocking structure of mortise-and-tenon joints – as used by woodworkers around the world since ancient times – to the design of nanoscale devices known as ...

Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum, according to a new study. What is more, astronomers may have ...

Efstathiou is professor of astrophysics at the University of Cambridge in the UK. Bond is a professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and university professor at the ...