Quantum physics just took a leap from theory to reality! Empa researchers have, for the first time, successfully built a long ...

Chuck Lorre knows Penny was "one-dimensional" and "clichéd" in the early days of the hit sitcom, but after several episodes ...

Ekert, who splits his time between the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore, describes how he used Bell’s theorem to create a pioneering quantum cryptography protocol and he ...

The Mpemba effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon that causes some systems to cool faster when they are hot than when ...

AIP and APS are excited to award Samson Shatashvili with the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Shatashvili ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists ...

Under this model, the black hole transitions into a white hole, with the hole's singularity and horizons defined as regions ...

Previously, “both physicists and neuroscientists have largely dismissed the relevance of standard quantum mechanics to neuronal processes, as quantum effects are thought to disappear at the large ...

It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new ...