Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, ...

Researchers say a new theory tackling the Big Bang could reshape how physicists think about the earliest moments of cosmic history.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story… A mind-bending theory called quantum immortality suggests that your ...

Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

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 ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions; the theory undergirds ...