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

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe.

Scientists are using trapped ions in experiments to search for signs of a new particle that could help explain the mysterious ...

For decades, string theory has promised to be the ultimate explanation for how our universe works. In this theory, all matter ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

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 ...

While randomising a deck of cards gets more difficult as you add more cards, it turns out that the same isn't true for the ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

That is the provocative assertion behind Professor Ginestra Bianconi’s latest work, which reframes gravity as an emergent phenomenon arising from the interplay of spacetime geometry, quantum ...

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