Physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies introduces his new book Quantum 2.0, charting the strange and revolutionary principles of quantum mechanics and how they are reshaping technology, science, and ...

On May 7, 1981, influential physicist Richard Feynman gave a keynote speech at Caltech. Feynman opened his talk by politely rejecting the very notion of a keynote speech, instead saying that he had ...

Today is World Quantum Day. It is celebrated on April 14, a reference to 4.14, the rounded first digits of Planck’s constant which describes the behavior of particles and waves on the atomic scale, ...

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

Pictures of John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are displayed on a screen, as they are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a ...

Recent advancements in quantum computing hardware have ushered in a new era of practical quantum mechanics applications. A novel system that sorts ions for more efficient computation marks a ...