A preliminary analysis suggests that industrially useful quantum computers designs come with a broad spectrum of energy ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

US researchers solve partial differential equations with neuromorphic hardware, taking us closer to world's first ...

At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference, scientific and business leaders of the quantum computing industry hailed "spectacular" ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...