Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

The AI ship has already sailed and the fusion boat is still stuck in the docks, so is this the next best thing?

Orbs that glow in the night sky. A young girl reading minds. Reports of communing with non-human intelligence. UFOs shutting ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built on ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

The Youngest Official Language In The World Turns 100 This Year TwistedSifter a quantum computer simulation that has ...

We spoke to my parents after and I think they explained a little of what had happened. The general gist was that you asked ...

This was made possible by changing the “electronic state of matter on demand” through a technique known as thermal quenching.

A ‘quantum internet’ would be a network that uses quantum rules to send information. It could offer super-secure ...

In the beginning, most of the ideas you come up with turn out either to be flawed or have already been explored. The alternative is to stay in safe territory and do incremental work, which certainly ...