In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

The discovery was achieved by researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria, who worked together with ...

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Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time — shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...