For the first time, a quantum computer has successfully measured pairing correlations (quantum signals that show electrons ...

Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the season two episode of The Twilight Zone (2019), ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The American Physical Society (APS) – the world’s largest organization of physicists – has awarded the 2026 Aneesur Rahman ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

Iulia Georgescu highlights the forgotten pioneers of computational physics and calls for a wider appreciation of research software engineers ...

Computing firm Quantinuum has provided the hardware for many outstanding feats in quantum computing over the past few years.

Its mind-boggling complexity is probably a factor in why quantum has ended up with a lower profile than tech's current ...

MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

A century on, physicists still disagree on what quantum mechanics actually means. Nature recently surveyed more than a ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

The standard interpretation of a null state, or empty state, posits it as devoid of structure. This paper introduces a ...