Only non-Chinese institutions among top 10 on latest Nature Index are from Europe, while the US debuts at No 13.

Physics attempts to both answer philosophical questions about the nature of the universe and provide solutions to technological problems.

Qubits—the fundamental units of quantum information—drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be ...

The present-day interest in optical magnetometers is driven by numerous and diverse applications, a partial list of which includes tests of the fundamental symmetries of nature, search for man ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Researchers in Austria have achieved a major milestone in quantum computing after obtaining a complete optical readout of ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford say they've achieved quantum teleportation using a powerful quantum supercomputer.

Nature Communications is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group since 2010. The editor in chief is Lesley Anson. It is multidisciplinary in scope, with ...

Scientists have cooled qubits to record low temperatures using a quantum refrigerator powered by "hot thermal baths." ...

A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd.

By blending digital control with analog simulations, scientists have created a powerful new quantum simulator that pushes ...

Entanglement -- linking distant particles or groups of particles so that one cannot be described without the other -- is at the core of the quantum revolution changing the face of modern technology.