WashU physicists build quantum sensors in boron nitride sheets to study magnetism and stress under extreme pressure.

But the wonders of the internet has brought an entire economy built on outrage and conspiracy theories, enabling even the ...

A TikTok user shared a bizarre video of a Toyota Quantum taxi balanced on a house roof, leaving South Africans completely puzzled about how it got there.

Imagine if electricity could flow without resistance, or if computers could process data at unimaginable speeds. Achieving ...

The discovery of gravitational waves started long before that historic September day, but it is in that moment that the ...

While Max Planck is rightly celebrated as the father of quantum theory, his scientific curiosity didn’t stop there. He was a physicist who really dug into the nitty-gritty of how the universe works, ...

However, a recent study by Chinese scientists has given us new hope: Quantum Machine Learning (QML) may inherently possess ...

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...

There’s one kind of program that we don’t understand – even in principle – and that’s an AGI. One day we will, but I see no sign of it at the moment and that’s pretty frustrating.”  That’s the view of ...

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 ...

Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for ...

SET for a Quantum Leap Celebrating 30 years of excellence in science, engineering and technology (SET) in South Africa… and beyond It’s South Africa’s biggest night in science, where groundbreaking ...