In the world of Naruto, a forbidden Jutsu is considered catastrophic. It can inflict significant harm on the user, or it might be inhumanely damaging to others. Not only that, but any Jutsu, the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico ...

Researchers at CERN have just achieved a world first: they have successfully created and controlled a quantum bit of antimatter, called a qubit. A feat that opens the way to new tests of the most ...

The demonstration of the first antimatter quantum bit paves the way for substantially improved tests of nature’s fundamental symmetries. Particles such as the antiproton, which has the same mass but ...