Scientists Broke a 160-Year-Old Law of Physics to Create Programmable Heat

There are certain laws of physics that heat must follow. Take Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, for example, which ...

Quantum entanglement without transport: Leaky qubits offer route around noisy channels

The inevitable leakage of energy and information from a quantum system into its surrounding environment is the enemy of ...

Hiring a hit man to commit murder is not always ‘a crime of violence,’ 9th Circuit rules

Commissioning murder is "not categorically a crime of violence," even in cases where the killer fulfills the contract, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week, invalidating two felony ...