The small clay cylinders are engraved with symbols thought to be letters.Credit: Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University Clay cylinders unearthed from a tomb in Syria and dated to 4,400 years
It worked: in February 2021, the scientists bested the previous record by 70% and achieved nearly one-tenth of the output needed for ignition. More importantly, both experiments breached a threshold
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Two teams of CERN physicists are racing to perform an extraordinary feat: transporting antimatter for the first time. Antimatter — matter’s mirror image — is difficult to create and extremely
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, UK, one of the United Kingdom’s ‘legal deposit’ libraries. Access has not been possible for more than a year because of a
This billion-dollar firm plans to build giant quantum computers from light. Can it succeed?