Researchers have devised a new way to define thermodynamic concepts in microscopic quantum systems, where conventional distinctions between heat and work begin to blur. Researchers at the University o ...

For decades, physicists have dreamed of a quantum internet: a planetary web of ultrasecure communications and super-powered ...

But in Tallulah, a charming town in Madison Parish, retirees are quietly living their best lives without checking their bank accounts every fifteen minutes or subsisting on a diet of discount ramen ...

As part of the QuNET project, researchers have demonstrated how quantum key distribution works reliably via hybrid and mobile ...

Ramy Shelbaya – co-founder and chief executive of UK firm Quantum Dice – talks to Anna Demming about how the company is using ...

For decades, quantum computing has been heralded as a technology of the future, promising to solve problems far beyond the ...

University of Warwick and National Research Council of Canada scientists achieve record-breaking electrical conductivity in ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...

Over geological time, information loss is the norm, not the exception. The “unitarity” principle of quantum mechanics says ...

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the construction of China’s Three ...

At first glance the foxes looked unchanged but inside, the experiment was rewriting nature’s script. The team removed fear of ...