In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

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Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, ...

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"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

The pioneer of quantum computing talks about how Albert Einstein would have reacted to his experiments, the hype around the ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Photonic says it’s trying to build the world’s first highly scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. It’s doing so with a ...