A wafer of a set of ‘quantum processors’ built by D-Wave Systems. Photo: jurvetson/Flickr, CC BY 2.0. We are in the middle of what the journal Nature has called the “quantum gold rush”. Governments ...

In contrast to the wonders that the ancients fancied in saliva, and the high esteem with which medical science presently views it, the general public’s attitude in the West has been one of neglect.

On December 13, the US Department of Energy announced that the National Ignition Facility had reached a “milestone”: the achievement of “ignition” in nuclear fusion earlier in the month. While the ...

Neither the CDSCO nor the national advisory group on immunisation was taken into confidence before Narendra Modi announced the rollout of booster doses.

This year, 2019, commemorates the 50th anniversary of one of humanity’s most incredible achievements thus far: of people physically reaching the Moon. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the natural ...

Dentists are an important, but an often unrecognised, group of professionals in the field of modern medicine. The diseases of other organ systems are usually deemed to be more important than a ...

A statue of John Henry alongside State Highway 12 in West Virginia, US. Photo: Ken Thomas/Wikimedia Commons, public domain. This story was originally published by ProPublica. COVID-19 has killed many ...

Perhaps the most well-known quantum communications application is quantum key distribution, which allows someone to securely distribute encryption keys.

Luc Montagnier during the TV interview. Photo: YouTube. The 2008 Nobel Laureate for physiology or medicine from France, Luc Antoine Montagnier, caught the media’s attention when he recently endorsed a ...

Wetlands are areas that are inundated with water permanently or seasonally, described as the ‘kidneys’ that regulate water and filter waste from the landscape.

Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. Photo: Nobel Foundation/Public Domain. Quantum physics is one of the most remarkable developments of the 20th century. Until the early 1900s or so, Isaac Newton’s laws of ...

Cost-effective surgical package options that are essential for the management of non-communicable diseases could have been included in the guidelines.