An optical computer built at Wits University could help make quantum computing more accessible in developing nations.

Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of ...

Researchers have managed to coax a quantum computer to pulse with a rhythm unlike any before—a rhythm that defies ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger ...

At a singularity, the laws of physics as we know them suffer a complete breakdown. So such objects really shouldn’t exist.

A team of physics educators from Italy, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum ...

How do these giant balloons work? What makes them both easier and more complicated than a normal-size balloon?

The researchers, including physics education specialist Professor Philipp Bitzenbauer from Leipzig University, concentrate on what are known as ...

The computer might surprise people with its diminutive size. It is a desktop unit resembling a small printer or scanner, ...

Under very specific circumstances light can have a cooling effect, which new research shows can be larger than anticipated.

Accelerating rates of heat uptake by oceans that don't fit current climate models can now be explained by quantum physics, ...

Entanglement is a fundamental property of the quantum world. It occurs when two particles become inextricably linked, such ...