Chemists at the School of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently made ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help unravel the mystery of dark matter. The Standard Model of particle physics o ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

What is quantum technology? Quantum technology can process an enormous amount of data and solve complex problems in seconds ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built on ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

In a first, Australian scientists turned to quantum machine learning to model semiconductor design, outperforming classical ...

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According to a study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have ...