Tractor beams using light or sound have existed for a while. Lasers can be used to create optical tweezers, a development that got Arthur Ashkin a Nobel prize in 2018 – so it is possible to move and ...

Quantum computing expert Daniel Lidar explains what problems scientists are still trying to overcome to make quantum ...

Quantum computing has moved from theoretical concept to business reality, with corporations already implementing solutions ...

It's almost impossible to wrap your head around how mind-blowing it would be to see a real-life time machine in action—talk ...

Quantum researchers have long believed that strong spin interactions in qubits required covalent bonds, making large-scale ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

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The creators of Dark got the idea of introducing quantum physics into the series after reading a children's book on it.

The famous second law of thermodynamics says that the world gets more and more disordered when random chance is at play. Or, ...

For the first time ever, scientists have managed to snap a picture of an electron’s shape while it moves through a solid.

The quantum revolution is advancing technology, and new experimental equipment from the University of Barcelona helps ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...