Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive ...

British bank HSBC said on Thursday that it had tested the use of quantum computing in the European corporate bond market, marking a world-first breakthrough. Working with a team from IBM, HSBC found ...

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Teleportation. Imagine instantly transporting to a remote location like moving from your home to the office with no commute whatsoever. It's technology you always see incorporated in sci-fi media, ...

IonQ and D-Wave Quantum have exciting technologies. Alphabet and Microsoft need to develop their own quantum computing capabilities in-house to improve profitability. The quantum computing arms race ...

"We were surprised how sensitive the levitated nanoscale particle was to the fluctuations of its environment. This levitated small particle isolated in a vacuum environment will be an ideal system to ...

The achievement paves the way for understanding the transition between a particle's classical and quantum behavior. (Nanowerk News) Researchers Mitsuyoshi Kamba, Naoki Hara, and Kiyotaka Aikawa of the ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ...

An artist's concept of multiple types of subatomic particles. Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their ...