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Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

New finding advances our understanding of complex topological quantum systems and could help in the development of next-generation memory and storage devices ...

Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of ...

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Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

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Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains Quantum Mechanics - the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...