Particles faster than light could revolutionise our understanding of space, time, and the universe’s fundamental laws.

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

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

Building large-scale quantum technologies requires reliable ways to connect individual quantum bits (qubits) without ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

What I am looking at is not just the most powerful computer in the world, but technology pivotal to financial security, ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

There's a certain logic to how human civilization operates. Some say it's predetermined by physics, others point to evolutionary biology, but if you take a step back and look at things out of context, ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

Researchers created scalable quantum circuits capable of simulating fundamental nuclear physics on more than 100 qubits. These circuits efficiently prepare complex initial states that classical ...