Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...

The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman once famously remarked that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” given the ...

He disproved one of Einstein’s toughest theories, was regarded as a genius and died in the year he was nominated for the ...

A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most ...

The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged by gravity. The connection between cause and effect is fundamental to how we understand the ...

SINGAPORE – At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing rules meant that Ms Akshaya Rajesh could not hold study sessions with her friends. She ended up explaining what she learnt out ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory—our two best bets on understanding the universe on a macroscopic and ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

Rutger Bregman said his comment that President Trump was the “most openly corrupt president in American history” was removed before his lecture was broadcast on Tuesday. By Mark Landler Reporting from ...

ON AN OCTOBER night in 1989, a 4-year-old girl was shocked awake by a phone ringing and then a scream. She crept out of her bedroom and tiptoed barefoot along the hallway’s clammy vinyl tile, ...

Prof. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UIUC, received the Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Award for advancing AI-powered quantum modeling in polymer science. In this lecture, ...