For more than 60 years, Bell's theorem has been the gold standard for demonstrating that quantum mechanics defies the rules ...

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Quantum technology has promising potential to revolutionize how large and complex amounts of information are processed. While already in use primarily in laboratory and research settings globally, ...

A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it falls, and when and where it will land. But if you were to squeeze that ...

Illinois Wesleyan University announced the creation of the Fisher Center for Interdisciplinary Quantum Science & Engineering, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics. In the century since the field's inception, scientists and engineers have used quantum mechanics to create technologies ...

Professor Adam Sikora is helping advance and popularize the growing field of quantum topology, which connects topology and geometry with quantum physics through surprising cross-fertilization of ideas ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might ...

The modern scientific world prides itself on precision, empirical rigour, and the pursuit of measurable truth. Yet, some of ...