The 100-year-old field of quantum mechanics deals with the seemingly impossible subatomic world where switches can be on-and-off at the same time and parts of atoms tunnel through what seems like ...

Nobel Prize 2025 award ceremony will be held December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel, the wealthy Swedish industrialist ...

Coin tosses, randomness, and decision-making in films and literature explored through statistics and probability by a ...

Google's quantum researchers Michel Devoret and John Martinis, along with John Clarke, have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy ...

Tory assembly member Andrew Boff argued 'trans voices are being shut out' of the party's conference in Manchester, after he heckled a session on gender identity.

The 2025 Homi Bhabha lecturer Rupamanjari Ghosh is a leading expert in quantum optics and a transformative figure in higher ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists on Tuesday for discovering that a bizarre barrier-defying ...

A hidden quantum geometry that distorts electron paths has finally been observed in real materials. This “quantum metric,” once thought purely theoretical, may revolutionize electronics, ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has congratulated three physicists with deep ties to the company’s Quantum AI ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex computational problems, with applications in everything from supply chain ...