With properties of a superfluid but with a crystalline structure, supersolids have previously only been observed in ultracold ...

A team of Italian scientists has successfully made light behave like a supersolid for the first time. Published in Nature ...

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and ...

Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the universe. They are the core of a collapsed megastar that went supernova, ...

Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. Dark matter, the mysterious form of unobserved matter which could make up 85% of the mass of ...

Microsoft says its researchers have created a new quantum computer processor that relies on a never-before-seen state of matter. The technological leap—called Majorana 1—represents a major ...

Microsoft has developed the world’s first quantum computing chip called Majorana 1. The company says quantum computers are ...

Microsoft scientists have created a quantum processor that taps into a rare state of matter that was first theorized in the 1930s, paving the way for a processor with a million qubits within years.

REDMOND — Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows three primary states of matter exist: solid, liquid and gas. Microsoft now says it has created a new state of matter in its ...

Microsoft announced a sensational new quantum-computing chip called Majorana 1 based on what it said was an “entirely new state of matter”: a topological superconductor. According to a long ...