A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

A revolutionary theory has emerged suggesting that the enigma of human consciousness could be intricately linked with the ...

Quantum computing promises to solve the seemingly unsolvable in fields such as physics, medicine, cryptography and more.

We often marvel at the genius of Albert Einstein, a physicist who revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Yet, even ...

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A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

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

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

Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...

In the rapid development of quantum computing and sensor technology, accurately simulating the behavior of atomic-level materials is particularly important. However, traditional simulation methods ...