First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit

Researchers in China have teleported a photon from the ground to a satellite orbiting more than 500 kilometers above.

The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science

The team demonstrates that photons can become an accessible and powerful quantum resource when generated in the form of color-entangled quDits.

New Calculation Could Spell Trouble For a Popular Theory of the Universe's Origin

When running Hawking and Hartles’ as well as Vilenkin’s, math, the new team didn’t get the teeny quantum fluctuations required to create today’s universe.

Physicists just smashed a record to achieve quantum entanglement in space

In a new study, scientists have successfully transmitted entangled photons between a satellite and Earth at a distance of over 1,200 km.

Seeing the quantum future, literally

Scientists have demonstrated the ability to 'see' the future of quantum systems and used that knowledge to preempt their demise, in a major achievement that could help bring the strange and powerful world of quantum technology closer to reality.

Physicists detect exotic looped trajectories of light in three-slit experiment

Physicists have performed a variation of the famous 200-year-old double-slit experiment that, for the first time, involves "exotic looped trajectories" of photons.

LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown

Gravitational-wave data show tentative signs of firewalls or other exotic physics.

More than 100,000 people challenge Einstein in a unique worldwide quantum physics experiment

More than 100,000 people participated in the BIG Bell Test, a global experiment to test the laws of quantum physics.

Proton Radius Puzzle Deepens With New Measurement

The new finding, to appear on August 12 in Science, increases the slim chance that something is truly amiss, rather than simply mismeasured, in the heart of atoms.

Quantum computer makes first high-energy physics simulation

Physicists have performed the first full simulation of a high-energy physics experiment — the creation of pairs of particles and their antiparticles — on a quantum computer.

Light-matter interplay probed: Physicists achieve quantum Hall state with light

Harnessing the shared wave nature of light and matter, researchers have used light to explore some of the most intriguing questions in the quantum mechanics of materials.

Super quantum simulator 'entangles' hundreds of ions

The simulator is designed to model and mimic complex physics phenomena in a way that is impossible with conventional machines, even supercomputers.

Newly discovered form of spiralized light breaks everything quantum physics says about photons

Scientists in Ireland discovered a new form of light that will radically change our understanding of how light functions.

Physicists build ultra-powerful accelerator magnet

  • 8 Apr 2016

The next generation of cutting-edge accelerator magnets is no longer just an idea. Recent tests revealed that the United States and CERN have successfully co-created a prototype superconducting accelerator magnet that is much more powerful than those currently inside the Large Hadron Collider.

New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material

An international team of researchers has found evidence of a mysterious new state of matter, first predicted 40 years ago, in a real material. This state, known as a quantum spin liquid, causes electrons -- thought to be indivisible building blocks of nature -- to break into pieces.