World-leading scientists are leaving long-held positions at Western institutions for universities in Hong Kong, as rising research funding there and geopolitical tensions and weakening support in the ...

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have demonstrated that quantum entanglement between pairs of atomic defects in diamond can sharpen nanoscale sensors well beyond ...

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One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The ...

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The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly behaviours.