A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world ...

Quantum mechanics has always had a way of making even the sharpest minds stop and scratch their heads. In the everyday world, ...

Scientists using Google’s quantum processor have taken a major step toward unraveling the deepest mysteries of the universe.

Physicists from Osaka Metropolitan University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology were, for the first ...

Generations of researchers have tried to create a quantum theory of gravity, and their work has produced sophisticated ...

At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of ...

For a century, quantum theory has passed every experimental test, but physicists can’t agree on how to use it to paint a ...

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will ...

The same technology behind MRI images of injury or disease also powers nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which ...

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Scientists demonstrated in quantum experiments that "negative time" actually exists in a tangible, physical sense that can be ...

Today’s digital security relies on one fragile truth: that breaking today’s encryption standards, using tools available today ...