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

Key Takeaways There are nearly 90 quantum-focused academic programs across the U.S. from the bachelor's to the postdoctoral level. They fall in the following disciplines: interdisciplinary (43%), ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

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

Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

Scientists in Greece have laid out a mathematical framework to help explain a so-far-unsolved gap in our understanding of how ...

Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are hardwired for this kind of whimsy.

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

Researchers have demonstrated that the theoretically optimal scaling for magic state distillation—a critical bottleneck in ...

The long-standing issue holding back quantum computing, its high propensity for errors, may finally be in the past.

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