A new recipe of "quadratic gravity" could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed ...

A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of recent breakthroughs points to a future in which exotic states of matter, ...

Quantum computing has moved from lab curiosity to a technology that could reshape how humanity plans its most ambitious journeys into deep space. Instead of relying solely on brute-force rockets and ...

University of Pittsburgh officials say its new, nearly $12 million quantum research center has the equipment and technology ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

In quantum mechanics, particles do not behave like everyday objects. Instead of existing in one clearly defined state, they ...

There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for ...

At left: Microsoft’s Majorana quantum chip. At right: Xplore’s Xcraft satellite. (Credits: Microsoft / Xplore) BELLEVUE, Wash. — Quantum physics and outer space may seem as different as two tech ...