Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.

A faint blue dot, suspended between metal electrodes, captured imaginations around the world—and reminded us how far experimental physics has come. In Oxford, a lone ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

IBM’s new 120-qubit experiment marks a leap forward, advancing technology that could one day crack Bitcoin’s encryption.

It's a well-known fact that quantum calculations are difficult, but one would think that quantum computers would facilitate the process. In most cases, this is true.

Evidence of this quantum layer may be coming soon. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Physicists are still puzzling over ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in light manipulation by using topological insulators to generate both even and odd terahertz frequencies through high-order harmonic generation (HHG). By ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...

Scott Lang is after a yellow energy source in the Quantum Realm in Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania. This Quantum Energy ...