More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

A team of Australian and international scientists has, for the first time, created a full picture of how errors unfold over ...

A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most ...

A teenager from Belgium has just vaulted from prodigy to pioneer, completing a PhD in quantum physics at 15 and immediately ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

Their work introduces a new concept called q-desics, short for quantum-corrected paths through space–time. These paths ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

The true danger isn't just that quantum computers will read our emails. It's that they'll fundamentally change what's ...