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Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Scientists Uncover the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

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What are these quantum dots that got their discoverers a Nobel Prize?

Quantum dot technology gave us today’s high definition TVs and now a Nobel Prize to its discoverers and developers.

Image of a black hole at the centre of galaxy M87 and its event horizon, taken by the Event Horizon telescope in 2019. Photograph: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/EPA

Do black holes have hair?

Scientists ask the question do black holes have hair? And according to a new study with new mathematics the answer is yes, they have quantum hair.