A single speck of light—captured inside a lab at Oxford—turned the abstract into the tangible. It didn’t just win a prize; it showed that we ...

From computer chips to quantum dots—technological platforms were only made possible thanks to a detailed understanding of the ...

A new platform developed by Illinois Grainger engineers demonstrates the utility of a ytterbium-171 atom array in quantum ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating\u00A0macroscopic ...

Imagine falling into a star so powerful it could tear apart every atom in your body. This video explores what would happen if you approached the universe’s most magnetic and dangerous star. With ...

The exhibition will run for a year, and access to it is included in the price of a regular ticket to the centre. Read more at ...

It's not the first time there have been claims of signs of life on Mars, so why are scientists particularly thrilled now?

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics.

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John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

The discovery could significantly reduce the production costs of fuels, chemicals, and materials. A research team from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and ...

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That's normal physics. But in the quantum world, ...