An international group of researchers have investigated the role of memory in quantum systems and dynamics. Their findings show that a quantum process can appear memoryless from one perspective while ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly empty it. You remove all its visible contents, pump out any gases, and—applying some ...

But after reading Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism, a book published in March 2025 by the physicist Wojciech Zurek, I’m excited by the possibility of an answer that does away with all those fanciful ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A window into how visible matter emerges from the "nothing" of vacuum has been opened by physicists at the Brookhaven ...

Learn the fundamentals of physics with this clear explanation of Newton’s Laws and the momentum principle! This video breaks down concepts like force, motion, and momentum with easy-to-understand ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation. Suppose you want to empty a box. Really, truly ...

Q. How does Anton Zeilinger’s assertion that “the distinction between reality and our knowledge of reality, between reality and information, cannot be made” reshape the classical notion of objective ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a wide range of sensing technologies Levitation has long been pursued by stage ...

The takeaway: The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes not only the ingenuity of the three US scientists but also the foundation their work laid for technologies still in development. Four decades ...

Prize awarded for developing 'next generation of quantum technology' 'I'm completely stunned,' says UC Berkeley professor Quantum technology ubiquitous in everyday electronics Physics is second prize ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in an electrical ...