Quantum computing just got a significant boost thanks to researchers at the University of Osaka, who developed a much more efficient way to create "magic states" a key component for ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and ...

Columnist and Physics Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it ...

Quantum computing stocks jumped Wednesday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made bullish comments about the technology at the chipmaker's GTC Paris developer conference.

Randomness is incredibly useful. People often draw straws, throw dice or flip coins to make fair choices. Random numbers can enable auditors to make completely unbiased selections. Randomness is ...

Quantum computing could change the world over the coming decades. It's not too early to think about how to profit from this generational technological leap.

Read more Return to Helgoland: celebrating 100 years of quantum mechanics The final after-dinner speaker was science journalist Philip Ball, who explained how quantum theory developed in 1924–25 in ...

As quantum mechanics turns 100, a new revolution is under way 5 physicists discuss the future of quantum research and technology ...

Meanwhile in 2025 we celebrate 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics, which lead to this powerful yet baffling computing style that can't even run Doom.

Quantum mechanics is extremely successful and extremely weird. Its weirdness has made it controversial. It doesn’t even try to do what we often think scientific theories must do: it doesn’t try to ...

In research inspired by the principles of quantum mechanics, researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the University of Oxford reveal new findings to understand why the human brain is ...