The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology todayheadline
If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft ...
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Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades todayheadline
John Stewart Bell devised a way to measure the strange correlations allowed in the quantum realmCERN Some people think they ...
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Do we have free will? Quantum experiments may soon reveal the answer todayheadline
Different interpretations of quantum mechanics pose philosophical problemsPobytov/Getty Images Does quantum physics place limits on the extent to which we ...
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Radical photon idea could rewrite standard model of particle physics todayheadline
Photons could upend the standard model of particle physicsEduard Muzhevskyi/Alamy If photons possess more quantum states than expected, it would ...
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Nothing is stronger than quantum connections – and now we know why todayheadline
Quantum correlations are the strongest ones ever measuredSAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The strange connections between quantum objects are the strongest relationships ...
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Quantum computers don’t always need more qubits – just add chaos todayheadline
Illustration of a chip containing quantum bits, or qubitsPete Hansen/Shutterstock The effort to build truly useful quantum computers often comes ...
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Space could emerge from time todayheadline
Some physicists are questioning the idea of space-timeSAKKMESTERKE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Physicists of the 19th century assumed that space was distinct ...
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Quantum eavesdropping could work even from inside a black hole todayheadline
An observer hiding inside a black hole can eavesdrop on quantum objects outside itvan van/Shutterstock Quantum eavesdropping is possible across ...
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Time can move both forwards and backwards at the quantum scale todayheadline
Does time move backwards in some situations?sakkmesterke/Alamy Some quantum systems may have two arrows of time, one running forwards as ...
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Quantum computers get automatic error correction for the first time todayheadline
Quantum computers could use heat to eliminate errorsChalmers University of Technology, Lovisa Håkansson A tiny cooling device can automatically reset ...
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