The House Science, Space and Technology Committee is planning to hold a hearing on Thursday, Jan. 22 to discuss the progress ...

A quantum physics lesson for gamblers who talk to slot machines, and a Nobel Prize-winning proof that the universe doesn't ...

Stevens Institute, Hoboken, reports the universal identity P²+K²=1, uniting polarization with entanglement across setups and ...

Argonne National Laboratory announced it has successfully deployed and is running a 12-qubit quantum dot device built by Intel, with the first collaborative work published in Nature Communications. - ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the smallest scales, erasing information is not free, it consumes energy and ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three quantum scientists. How important was their work to quantum research? Klaus Ensslin: Experiments conducted by these three researchers forty ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...

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A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...