Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

High-speed QRNG devices typically involve high costs and complex designs, limiting their accessibility. However, in many practical applications, simpler, low-cost QRNG devices are preferred due to ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...

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 ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

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.

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 ...

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He developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and made foundational discoveries that ...

The spiritual view of life is trapped between two opposite words, physics and metaphysics, the study of the physical world and the study of what might lie beyond the physical. Given a choice ...