Faster-than-light particles have spent decades in physics as both temptation and warning. They offered a way to test the ...

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In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of ...

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A message from the future sounds like science fiction, until someone starts asking how many bits it could actually carry.

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Designing materials that steer light is a slow kind of trial and error. Each candidate structure must be tested in computer ...

A team at the University of Chicago has discovered a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states that are normally difficult to produce. By making small adjustments to the energy levels ...

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A breakthrough quantum physics experiment has revealed a startling result. Scientists measured “negative time” as photons ...

Celebrated physicist Brian Cox – once a rocker – talks about curiosity, galaxies, walking on the moon and the power of saying ...

But a newer category is beginning to mature from theoretical research into deployable infrastructure.​ Unlike QKD, which ...