In the wee hours of the late 17th century, Isaac Newton could be found locked up in his laboratory prodding the secrets of nature. Giant plumes of green smoke poured from cauldrons of all shapes and ...

Rose Ahlefeldt receives funding from the Australian Research Council. If you were to try reciting the periodic table, you might stumble before you got to the rare earth elements. Comprising yttrium ...

Memory effects are ubiquitous in nature and the class of memory circuit elements – which includes memristors, memcapacitors and meminductors – shows great potential to understand and simulate the ...

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Take a look around you at everything on Earth. If you were to ...

The goal of quantum communication is to send information quickly and securely through encrypted channels. Improving that process is not an easy task and requires delicate work to control how light is ...