For years quantum technology seemed exciting in theory but not much good in practice. Now the ability to combine qubits—bits ...

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

Maria Violaris works on quantum foundations as an academic visitor at the University of Oxford, UK, and on quantum computing at Oxford Quantum Circuits, Reading, UK. Norma G. Sanchez, is the founder ...

Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

Vincenzo Savona, head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems. 2025 EPFL/Murielle Gerber- CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by working ...

In February 2025, scientists successfully teleported quantum information between two quantum computers six feet apart.