Scientists have made leaps and bounds in bending atoms to their will, making them into everything from ultraprecise clocks to ...

"Quantum" may seem like a useless buzzword, but quantum computing is a real thing, and it's actually understandable even if ...

The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman once famously remarked that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” given the ...

In everyday life, objects equilibrate with the environment. “A steaming cup of tea left on your desk eventually reaches room temperature, losing almost all memory of how it was heated,” says Prof.

As the new year approaches, it’s not hard to imagine that many risk takers are wondering what the next move will be in the ...

Machine learning techniques that make use of tensor networks could manipulate data more efficiently and help open the black ...

Three quantum researchers were presented with the Nobel Prize in Stockholm on 10 December. Meanwhile, this year marked the ...

Over the trailing year, as of the closing bell on Dec. 12, shares of quantum computing pure-play stocks IonQ ( IONQ 7.69%), Rigetti Computing ( RGTI 6.22%), D-Wave Quantum ( QBTS 6.74%), and Quantum ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

IonQ's quantum computing approach yields more accurate results. Rigetti Computing has not yet been advanced to the next stage of a key government-funded quantum computing benchmarking initiative. The ...

The first nation to achieve quantum supremacy doesn’t just win a science prize. It wins the ability to break every encryption ...