Saturn’s rings might have formed relatively recently—like, in the past hundred million years or so—according to new…
Quantum computers are probably the most misunderstood of nascent technologies, which makes sense, because their very…
This week in the city of Westbrook, Maine, a huge, rotating circle of ice formed on the Presumpscot River. While it…
Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered an oddly tilted planet-forming disk within a double binary star…
Ten hut, Gizmodo readers! Do you have a New Year’s Resolution you should be working on? Do not answer that rhetorical…
IBM has announced the release of Q System One, or as the IBM team described it, “the world’s first fully integrated…
Within days of each other back in 1998, two teams published the results of the first real-world quantum computations.…
New evidence confirms that an influx of cosmic rays struck the entire planet around 994 CE—and it might solve the…
President Donald Trump signed a bill last week providing over a billion dollars in funding to quantum research.
Gizmodo was all about examining the past and future this week.
A startup based in Maryland has released and tested an impressive new quantum computer that demonstrates the power of…
Quantum computers that can crack our strongest encryption methods might be decades away—but a group of entrepreneurs…
A human-made object has entered the space between the stars for the second time in history, scientists report.
The road ahead is rocky for those hoping to build quantum computers, according to a new report from the National…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived today at its target asteroid, Bennu, an important step on its mission to collect a sample…
Physicists have spotted four new instances of black holes colliding and sending their gravitational waves toward the…
This year taught us more about distant planets and our own world, about the ways we’re influencing our environment and…
On September 14, 2015, signals from one of the Universe’s most mind-boggling, powerful events produced the tiniest…
Physicists have created atomic clocks so precise that they can measure deformations in spacetime itself, according to…
Now that NASA’s InSight probe has successfully landed, you might wonder what’s next for it. Well, humanity’s latest…
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