IntroductionIt is a truth of both physics and everyday experience that things fall apart. Ice melts. Buildings crumble. Any object, if you wait long...

Introduction Just as people in different places seem to operate at different rhythms, so too do different species. They age at their own rates: Some,...

IntroductionOur planet is doomed. In a few billion years, the sun will exhaust its hydrogen fuel and swell into a red giant — a star so...

IntroductionRichard Dedekind was a 19th-century mathematical giant, responsible for reshaping the field right down to its foundations. He was the first to give a...

Jintai Ding1, Vlad Gheorghiu2, András Gilyén3, Sean Hallgren4, and Jianqiang Li41University of Cincinnati, OH, USA2Institute for Quantum Computing / Dept. of Combinatorics &...

IntroductionSo far this year, Quanta has chronicled three major advances in Ramsey theory, the study of how to avoid creating mathematical patterns. The first...

The first direct measurement has been made of a thorium-229 nuclear transition that could potentially...

Join the audience for a live webinar at 3 p.m. GMT/10 a.m. EST on 3 March 2023, sponsored by the IOP...

Recent news items published within the last 6 months on quantum computing developments are listed below. Click on the hyperlinked item to go to...

Time for the first VR Job Hub of 2022.