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 ...

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Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, ...

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

Oxford scientists have set a world record for quantum precision, achieving just one error in 6.7 million operations using ...

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

Consciousness gives rise to a sense of self and personal agency. The question is, how do biological processes give rise to ...

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

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

Max Planck is widely considered the father of quantum physics because he introduced the groundbreaking idea that energy comes ...

Sally Shrapnel had been a GP for more than two decades when she decided to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a full-time ...

You know, when folks talk about quantum computing, names like Feynman or Turing often pop up. But there’s this other guy, ...