Middle Tennessee State University announced a new quantum center in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences Oct. 31.

So darkly complex, so fabulously remote from the familiar things of human existence is science’s probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe—of light, electricity, gravity, matter—that the ...

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When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ...

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Explore the best college majors for quantum computing roles, the skills employers want, and how to choose the right program.

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

Vincenzo Savona, head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems. 2025 EPFL/Murielle Gerber- CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest. When ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...