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Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly ...

Quantum computing is entering a critical phase as researchers say scaling to millions of qubits is the biggest challenge and ...

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TU Wien researchers have uncovered a quantum twist to the paths particles take through spacetime — one that could finally ...

Researchers from the School of Physics at Wits University, working with collaborators from the Universitat Autònoma de ...

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity into the same mathematical language as the other forces of nature. While the ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...