Physicists have revealed a quantum state once thought impossible, where topology emerges even without particle-like electrons ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Photo of the experimental setup to couple MWs to N- 𝑉⁢s using grape dimers. A stripped optical fiber with N- 𝑉 spins, cantilevered from a rod, lies between two grapes. The grapes were positioned on ...

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 ...

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

Quantum computing is a complex marriage of math, physics and IT that will take society’s achievements to amazing new levels.

Suppose you’re a CIO or senior application planner, and you need to understand whether you should dig into quantum computing ...