Category: 7. Science

Nuclear physicists have successfully performed the largest digital quantum simulation to date using IBM quantum computers, demonstrating scalable quantum circuits for preparing initial states for simulations of fundamental physics. The…

Imagine this scenario: you have an important…

What happens when humanity finally builds a civilization on another planet, and immediately repeats its old mistakes? That question drives ‘The Second World’, the sharp, satirical debut from writer Jake Korell. Set against the rise of a…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on Nov. 10, 2025. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo

Nov. 23 (UPI) — SpaceX launched another 28…

Kissing might feel like a cultural invention, but new research suggests it reaches far deeper into our evolutionary past.

Researchers from the University of Oxford analyzed primate behavior, ancient oral microbes, and genetic links between early…