Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Vincenzo Savona, head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems. 2025 EPFL/Murielle Gerber- CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...

Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the season two episode of The Twilight Zone (2019), ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Google Quantum AI’s new research revives a 1960s concept of “quantum money,” potentially eliminating the need for blockchain ...

Penn State scientists have devised a new method to predict superconducting materials that could work at higher temperatures.

Spin glasses are physical systems in which the small magnetic moments of particles (i.e., spins) interact with each other in ...

Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a lot we don't know, according to Ulf Danielsson ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

We build high-tech tools to make our lives easier, and then forget that we still need to think, 'How do we know it's right?' ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...