Studying and designing novel materials is a central application of quantum mechanics. Chemists, materials scientists, and physicists focus on subtle interactions in quantum materials and to uncover ...

Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic electrons break chemical bonds inside microelectronic devices—a detrimental ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

Deep dive Side-scan sonar image of Komsomolets at the bottom of the Norwegian Sea, showing the relative position of the remotely operated vehicle Ægir 6000 during operations around the submarine.

Qubits or quantum bits are the fundamental building block for quantum information processes. Whereas conventional computers store and process data as a series of ‘1’s and ‘0’s, quantum computers use ...

The job would consist of 1 and a half days of work a month to record four long form videos (sub 15 minutes). Scripts are provided and the person need only to read from a teleprompter. The videos will ...

Apr. 22, 2026 A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients ...