Feeling drained? Ditch the coffee and the nap - try the coffee nap instead! This surprising strategy, backed by science, is said to be more effective than either option alone for boosting alertness. Here's the trick: Grab a cup of coffee, then take a quick 20-minute nap. The caffeine kicks in...

A plan to build four small nuclear reactors is not the only project Dow Chemical has lined up in Seadrift.Next month Dow will break ground on a $235 million facility that will make raw materials for products consumers use daily, such as cosmetics and laundry detergents. The materials form in a...

Based on two optical laser pulses acting as single terahertz laser pulse; a new approach for Q-computing. Bochum research team: Hans-Georg Babin and Arne Ludwig. A German-Chinese research team has successfully created a quantum bit in a semiconductor nanostructure. Using a special energy transition, the researchers created a superposition state in a quantum dot - a tiny area of the semiconductor - in which an electron hole simultaneously possessed two different energy levels.