Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

The discovery was achieved by researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria, who worked together with ...

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the smallest scales, erasing information is not free, it consumes energy and ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

From a child who wanted to be an artist to a UNESCO-honoured quantum scientist, Temitope Adeniyi embodies a new generation of ...