At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

She confuses the map and the territory. Mathematically, the past, present, and future can be one thing, but it also says that ...

If your New Year’s resolution is to understand quantum computing this year, take a cue from a 9-year-old podcaster talking to ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Quantum machine learning is being actively explored to assess whether quantum resources can enhance learning and inference, yet major obstacles remain. Here, we discuss pressing challenges and outline ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical reactions that have puzzled scientists for decades. Now, researchers at the ...

In the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka teleports a larger-than-life candy bar (and a small child) across the room into a television set. The idea of instantly transporting ...

A hundred years ago, Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his student German physicist Werner Heisenberg walked through Dyrehaven and along the Øresund for hours, trying to explain the strange behaviour of ...

Hardy's paradox, created in 1992, hinted at a scenario haunting the edges of quantum physics. It presented a thought ...