A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

Scientists have proposed a bold new explanation for how the universe began, suggesting the Big Bang’s rapid expansion may have emerged naturally from the laws of quantum gravity. Credit: Shutterstock ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

A small mathematical revision to quantum mechanics could effectively limit the purported infinite capacities of quantum ...

Leggett later switched to theoretical condensed-matter physics, and rapidly made the subject of macroscopic quantum phenomena his own. Only eight years after his PhD, he created a remarkably intuitive ...

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology theorize that a functional quantum computer may require far fewer ...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.

A mind-bending theory called quantum immortality suggests that your consciousness shifts to parallel universes after you die.

For the first time, a team of physicists in Austria has carried out an experiment that appears to verify the principle of ...