"Quantum" may seem like a useless buzzword, but quantum computing is a real thing, and it's actually understandable even if ...

Later work by others built on this, showing that these energy levels are a fundamental part of how the universe works at the smallest scales. It was a huge step in moving away from older ideas about ...

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 ...

One thing that can be said about the now-50-year-old “NOVA”: It has never been very funny. But the science program’s introduction to “Decoding the Universe: Quantum” is certainly amusing. And not a ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics ...

The lithium problem poses challenges to BBN models, sparking research into cosmic processes and enhancing our grasp of nuclear and astrophysical phenomena.

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation ...

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest. When ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their study of quantum mechanics in a macroscopic electrical circuit. Since the ...