To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...

A younger generation of Chinese is entering the global frontiers of science and technology with growing density and standing ...

Andrea Ghez developed a way to peer through dust clouds and observe stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Visitors tour the Tsung-Dao Lee Institute in Shanghai's Pudong New Area on Tuesday. The institute is constructing China's first dedicated laboratory astrophysics research platform, which will ...

The headline practically writes itself. A 78-year-old man, whose friend told law enforcement had been working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on quantum physics experiments related to the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening up new possibilities for physics research, from improving laser experiments to accelerating cancer prediction and analysing massive scientific datasets, ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple. Reading time 3 minutes As typically is the case with ...

A new critique in the scientific journal Nature is ‌raising fresh questions about Microsoft’s claimed quantum computing breakthrough last year ...

A major gift from the Leinweber Foundation has established the Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics at Princeton University. With this gift, Princeton will become the ninth member of the Leinweber ...

A University of Birmingham scientist has built a "mini-universe" that takes a step toward answering one of science's biggest questions: "What is time?" Publishing his findings in Physical Review ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...