Air quality in Courtenay is improving while pollution caused by wood stove smoke has been steadily decreasing over the past ...

An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics experiments.

Fewer than one in five global cities met World Health Organization air pollution standards in 2024 with Central and South ...

"Most of them are solitary. In this new work, we show how to effectively double the number of pulsars we can use to constrain dark matter in the galaxy by rigorously using solitary pulsars to ...

For example, the addition of seven criteria air contaminants ... The NPRI also tracks other individual sulphur compounds that are subsets of total reduced sulphur: Particulate matter (PM) consists of ...

First, particulate matter was found to influence vegetation growth by directly reducing the total solar radiation reaching the ground, which is essential for plant photosynthesis. It can also ...

Their innovation lies in a new state of matter, a topological superconductor, which could enable faster, more stable quantum computing. Microsoft, in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara physicists, ...

Microsoft researchers on Wednesday unveiled an approach to quantum computing that the company claimed involved the creation of a new state of matter. That followed Google in December touting its ...

Microsoft said they created a computer chip that uses a new state of matter that will be capable of running the most powerful computers ever — a potential breakthrough for quantum computing that ...