Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

Theories about space and time have always been the great misunderstood ones for the general public, but one of the great ...

India’s National Quantum Mission leverages nuclear legacy to lead in quantum computing, communication, sensing, and deep-tech ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

While randomising a deck of cards gets more difficult as you add more cards, it turns out that the same isn't true for the ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

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

What is quantum technology? Quantum technology can process an enormous amount of data and solve complex problems in seconds ...

A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built on ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

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 ...

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