A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

Quantum computers still face a major hurdle on their pathway to practical use cases: their limited ability to correct the ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

A new book on quantum physics is pleasingly full of cutting-edge topics. Yet it isn't the accessible work it promised to be ...

For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

May 13, 2025 — Quantum physics keeps challenging our intuition. Researchers have shown that joint measurements can be carried out on distant particles, without the need to bring them together.

Quantum physics, celebrated for its predictive success, has also become notorious for being an inscrutable mass of paradoxes. One of the founders of the theory, Niels Bohr, stated that "those who ...

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and gravity. Similar variables dictate rolling a pair of dice or shuffling a deck ...

A multitude of experiments have shown the mysterious phenomena of quantum mechanics to be how the universe functions. The scientists behind these experiments won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics.