On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

Two recent studies published in Nature and Science Advances explored quantum approaches that could improve the precision of ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of ...

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Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

For decades, quantum physics and general relativity have stood as two powerful but separate theories. Quantum physics explains the behavior of tiny particles like atoms and photons. General relativity ...

Over the past decades, quantum physicists and engineers have developed numerous technologies that harness the principles of ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – ...

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...