The US National Science Foundation might cut back on its core research grants in favour of those driven by the priorities of US President Donald Trump. Credit: Tada Images/Shutterstock The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is changing how it funds research grants — and how it decides which ones to fund — to better align
Quantum computers, such as this one shown at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, could run programs that have been almost completely generated by artificial-intelligence tools. Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg/Getty ‘Vibe coding’ is moving into quantum computing — a field in which programming has notoriously required sophisticated skills. To lower this barrier, researchers at
Glueballs are made of gluons, which bind quarks to form protons and neutrons.Credit: Sefa kart/Getty After almost two decades of searching, a team of physicists in China says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious particle called a glueball that is made entirely of force-carrying particles. Researchers at the Beijing Spectrometer III (BESIII) Collaboration,
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