To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

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For bringing quantum effects to a scale once thought impossible, three physicists have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics. In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated the ...

Diamond is extremely valuable to science and technology not for its sparkle but for its extreme hardness, high thermal ...

How come our universe is full of disorder, when all elementary particles appear to follow strictly ordered laws of physics? And are there organizing principles behind disorder and apparent chaos?

Theoretical physicists are trying to understand how the many possibilities that exist in quantum physics can become 'real.' A new model developed by UC Davis researchers suggests that there may be ...

What if the flow of time isn’t as one-way as it seems? Researchers from the University of Surrey have uncovered evidence that in the strange world of quantum physics, time could theoretically run both ...

Quantum computers promise to solve problems that would overwhelm even the world’s fastest supercomputers. They could help ...

Well, around a similar time, the American Physical Society (APS) invited researchers and science enthusiasts to chime in on ...