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The vivid view of “sun-like” stars in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex 390 light years away, released to mark the first year of operation of the James Webb space telescope, is the first time researchers have been able to see the area in fine detail, minus the distraction of foreground stars.

After 15 years of painstaking observations, a team of researchers — including Chiara Mingarelli, who worked on the new findings while at the Flatiron Institute — has listened in on the ripples of gravitational waves that perpetually course throughout the Universe for the first time.

By modifying the blueprint of life, researchers are endowing proteins with chemistries they’ve never had before.

Bold new simulations suggest the James Webb Space Telescope might be able to distinguish between competing dark matter models by studying primordial dwarf galaxies.

Physicists have now turned to quantum effects to split phonons, the smallest bits of sound, researchers reported recently.

With their intrinsic ability to consider many possibilities at once, quantum computers do not have to be very large to tackle certain prickly problems of computation. Recently, IBM researchers announced that they had devised a method to manage the unreliability in a way that would lead to reliable, useful answers.

A recently published study showed that a single stimulus in mouse cells and brain tissue triggers a series of transcription and translation cycles over time, promoting the formation of long-lasting memories.

A new demonstration involving hundreds of entangled atoms tests Schrödinger’s interpretation of Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky’s classic thought experiment.

Two independent teams — one led by researchers at Google, the other by researchers at Quantinuum — have reported creating and braiding versions of these anyons using quantum computers. The results could help scientists construct quantum computers that are resistant to the errors that currently bedevil the machines.

CCB research scientist Sonya Hanson served as a scientific advisor for “Double Helix,” a musical that illuminates Rosalind Franklin's contributions, which became the basis for James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 breakthrough.