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 ...
Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of ...
Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...
A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...
Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the elusive graviton—the quantum particle of gravity ...
Abstract: Combinatorial optimization is a promising area for achieving quantum speedup. The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is designed to search for low-energy states of the Ising ...
BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday after more than a week’s delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from ...
On January 22, 2025, physicists unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could revolutionize our understanding of the universe and potentially unlock the secrets of time travel. The existence of ...
The International Space Station is turning 25 this month. Twenty-five years of people from all over the world living together and working together in space. At the same time, it is starting to wrap up ...