Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article argues that the field now stands ...

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, ...

In 1947, when Bell Labs created the transistor, we could never have imagined this invention would underpin the microprocessor, the internet, and the digital world as we know it. The same potential for ...

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

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 ...

The University of Chicago, where Fermi split the atom in 1942, is becoming the center of a new form of advanced technology.

Physicists have chased a unified description of nature for more than a century, yet quantum theory and gravity have ...

At the core of a quantum computer is the quantum processor, but these technologies are vastly different from the CPUs found in conventional computers. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The light interacts with the cavity and makes an arbitrary number of bounces before leaking out. This emergent light is traditionally treated as heat in quantum simulations. However, it can still be ...

One of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics warned that China is rapidly narrowing the gap with the US in ...

Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old prodigy, has completed his PhD in quantum physics from Belgium’s University of Antwerp, in what could be a record time. The teen, who completed his bachelor’s degree in ...