The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

A quiet shift is taking place in physics labs that could one day reshape how you send a message, store data, or protect ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

Researchers from the School of Physics at Wits University, working with collaborators from the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Stanford team builds room-temperature quantum device that eliminates massive energy costs of current quantum systems.

A tropical bird’s feather structure inspires a new, wearable ultrablack fabric.

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Quantum communication is edging closer to reality thanks to a breakthrough in teleporting information between photons from ...

A tiny device that entangles light and electrons without super-cooling could revolutionize quantum tech in cryptography, ...

The polar regions hold some of this country’s most valuable assets. The U.S. has operational bases in both the Arctic and ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...