In a leap forward for quantum computing, physicists unveiled an eight-qubit topological quantum processor, the first of its kind. The chip, built as a proof-of-concept for the scientists' design, ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists developed new ways to control atom collisions using optical tweezers, offering insights ...

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more ...

It's necessary to explore multiple computational strata—including those yet to be discovered—that will underpin the creation ...

Quantum computing is one of the hottest trends on Wall Street. Once limited to theoretical physics and government labs, it’s now capturing the ...

Earlier this month Vodeb and his colleagues published the findings of their cosmic bubble simulation in Nature Physics. Using ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true that much of what happens millions of light years away is large, there are ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them ...

When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their ...

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes—individual molecules or ...

Atomic clocks are more accurate than those used to define the second, suggesting the definition might need to change ...