For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement ...

Augmented Reality (AR) adds digital stuff to the real world, like seeing a virtual couch in your living room. Virtual Reality ...

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String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe.

For decades, string theory has promised to be the ultimate explanation for how our universe works. In this theory, all matter ...

Quantum researchers finally captured the field’s “holy grail,” showing real machines can beat classical computing ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have achieved exciting progress in quantum metrology, a field ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

A new cosmological simulator logs its scientific predictions and refutations in real time, storing hashes in blockchain with full offline ...

He developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and made foundational discoveries that ...

That is the provocative assertion behind Professor Ginestra Bianconi’s latest work, which reframes gravity as an emergent phenomenon arising from the interplay of spacetime geometry, quantum ...