The display comprises seven sculptures that are illuminated from two different directions. The result is two very different ...

A physicist proposes that consciousness is the fundamental basis of reality, with matter and spacetime emerging from it.

Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In ...

Liminals by artist Pierre Huyghe (pictured) reminds us how gut-wrenching the ideas remain. Situated in Halle am Berghain, the ...

While the basic form of QKD enables information to be transmitted securely, it does have some weak points. One of them is ...

Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by subtly ...

The collaboration of TU Wien with research groups in China has resulted in a crucial building block for a new kind of quantum computer: The realization of a novel type of quantum logic gate makes it ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of physics. Despite enormous progress in cosmology and particle physics, we still ...

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, ...

Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a ...