Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Even given a set of possible quantum states for our cosmos, it's impossible for us to determine which one of them is correct ...

Quantum technology is moving—albeit slowly—from theory to proof-of-concept in finance, and it may become one of the most disruptive forces in banking and fintech over the next decade.

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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A network of ultra-competitive high-school talent streams has been turning out the leading lights of science and tech ...

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to powering quantum computers using quantum batteries—a breakthrough that could make future computers faster, more reliable, and more energy efficient.

Can quantum computing save us from 500 missiles attacking simultaneously? Perhaps ... and it has a far better shot than ...