Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit, offering new approach to fusion ignition

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...

New materials, old physics—the science behind how your winter jacket keeps you warm

As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out of the closet.

Josephson junctions — quantum computing building blocks — are possible with only one superconductor, experiment confirms

This device is known as a Josephson junction. It’s the foundational building block of quantum computers and advances of it ...
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Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...