When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Quantum physics is the branch ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

Physicists successfully teleport quantum information between photons from different sources, a key step towards a secure ...

Google is partnering with the UK’s national lab for quantum computing to invite researchers ...

Consumer electronic devices are made from materials that we have been using for more than 60 years, mainly silicon, germanium and copper. Why have semiconductor electronics become increasingly fast ...

The Aquila magneto-optical trap in QuEra’s facilities. Subatomic particles such as quarks can pair up when linked by ‘strings’ of force fields — and release energy when the strings are pulled to the ...

Breakthrough hints at future quantum relays and distributed architectures that could underpin next-generation networks ...

Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre world in which an object can act like both waves and particles, and behave ...

A single nanoparticle made of glass (a white point near the center of the photo) is confined in an optical potential created with a focused laser beam. By detecting the light scattered by the ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...