Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Penn State scientists have devised a new method to predict superconducting materials that could work at higher temperatures.

Spin glasses are physical systems in which the small magnetic moments of particles (i.e., spins) interact with each other in ...

Explore the complex challenges of quantum gravity in this video, examining the evolution of gravity models and the necessity ...

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

Ramanujan's formula, derived by the mathematician in 1914 when quantum theory hadn't been formulated fully, provides a faster ...

We build high-tech tools to make our lives easier, and then forget that we still need to think, 'How do we know it's right?' ...

The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

This idea was once thought to lie beyond the reach of scientific inquiry,” said physicist Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia.

Elon Musk says Alphabet's achievement is making quantum computing more relevant. Despite Google's progress, other quantum ...

This achievement makes India capable of quantum computing using the different properties of light-based particles, instead of ...