Quantum physicists celebrated in October when the Nobel committee awarded a long-awaited physics prize to...

Wormholes might sound like something that belongs in a Star Trek episode rather than a research paper, but scientists just simulated one on Google’s...

IntroductionPhysicists have purportedly created the first-ever wormhole, a kind of tunnel theorized in 1935 by Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen that leads from one...

This month’s episode of the Physics World Stories podcast looks in depth at the science behind the 2022 Nobel Prize for...

IntroductionCosmologists have spent decades striving to understand why our universe is so stunningly vanilla. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as...

Andrew M. Childs1,2, Jiaqi Leng1,3, Tongyang Li4,5,6, Jin-Peng Liu1,3, and Chenyi Zhang71Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland2Department of...

For most people, quantum mechanics seems pretty weird. Take the principle of delocalization, which states...

Robert P Crease and Gino Elia wonder whether this year’s Nobel prize would have been awarded if no-one cared about reality...