The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

A University of Michigan-led team has discovered quantum oscillations within an insulator’s bulk, overturning conventional ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

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While a quantum computer could factor a 2048-bit RSA key in less than a week with fewer than a million qubits, there are ...

This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...

Scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantization in an electric ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...