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

Some physicists reject philosophy as a distraction from ‘real’ science but it is in fact both useful and beautiful ...

The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it continues to be relevant today, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan ...

For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general ...

More information: Stefan Aimet et al, Experimentally probing Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime, Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02930-9 ...

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

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

It’s possible that the quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.” Thus it is held that our souls are greater than the interaction of neurons in the brain.

Meanwhile, other quantum physics research has been investigating the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems, which entail the influence of past states on the systems' future evolution.

Appearance is one thing, but reality is another. The world does not appear to be a hologram, but maybe it is. Thus begins ...