Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

As with AI, part of the excitement is driven by the immense leaps that could be made in hard problems by a quantum computer.

Researchers have developed an AI system that learns about the world via videos and demonstrates a notion of “surprise” when ...

The costs of a hail damage have ballooned over the past two decades, prompting researchers to resort to extreme measures to ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

For numerous fundamental processes of life, the formation of certain protein patterns is essential. Protein pattern formation ...

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Combining artificial intelligence with a conventional climate model can predict heatwaves faster than the standard model ...

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

Scientists hunted dark matter and solar neutrinos with one of the largest experiments yet. While the neutrinos likely ...