On the heels of some big quantum computing advances in 2024, at least one company is telling businesses to get “quantum ready ...

An international collaboration sheds new light on the relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The research group demonstrated that while the laws of quantum theory alone do not ...

The universe is getting more disordered, entropy is growing -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. But according to quantum theory, entropy should actually stay the same. Scientists took a ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

Physicists have performed a simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine the ultimate ...

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights ...

Confidential patient data, bank details and highly sensitive government and military information must be increasingly ...

New research shows that the second law of thermodynamics, which states entropy increases over time, also applies to closed ...

A new modeling technique may finally help scientists understand the chaotic phenomenon of turbulence which has escaped them ...