First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

Plutonium is one of the most complex elements in the periodic table. First synthesized and isolated in 1940 by scientists at ...

Scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in the US have discovered a rare ...

Strongly interacting quantum particles are key to some of the most fascinating phenomena in modern physics—from magnetism and ...

This includes proposals such as the Atom Interferometry CERN Experiment (AICE), which would apply similar techniques over ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — For nearly a century, there were two known kinds of magnets. Ferromagnets are the classic magnets that attract metal and keep pictures stuck to the refrigerator. Antiferromagnets hide ...

A new Nature critique questions Microsoft’s quantum computing research, raising doubts about a key study behind its goal of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

Finding ground states of quantum many-body systems is known to be hard for both classical and quantum computers. Consequently, when a quantum system is cooled in a low-temperature thermal bath, the ...

Qizhong Liang (PhDPhys’25) squeezes around a worktable tucked into the back corner of a CU physics lab. Spread out in front of him is an intricate arrangement of mirrors, lenses and tubes. But what ...