Scientists believe that spacetime may have emerged, in part, from a quantum property called “magic.” “Magic” describes how hard a quantum state is to simulate on a regular computer. According to a ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of what is real. At the smallest scales, the equations that power lasers, ...

Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...