In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unthinkable state of matter that challenges decades of assumptions ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in probabilities and the other in smooth curves of spacetime. A new line of work argues ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

Quantum physicists are edging closer to a kind of controlled transmutation, not of lead into gold, but of one electronic reality into another. By steering exotic entities called excitons, researchers ...