A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have realized particularly stable quantum logical operations with qubits made of neutral atoms.

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After more than a decade of work, researchers now say they have uncovered the root cause of water’s unusual behavior. Their ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

A new type of radiofrequency trap can capture particles with extremely different requirements and could theoretically hold ...

Scientists have figured out teleportation, but we're still a far cry from 'Star Trek.' ...

Researchers in Germany have moved closer to synthesizing antihydrogen after successfully confining heavy calcium ...

Quantum exchange or swap gates are an important part of quantum computers with a large number of qubits. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a swap gate for qubits made of neutral atoms that is ...

Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave ...

A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts were linked. That is the ...

What can a horse teach us about the dangers of human expectation — and how it shapes our search for intelligent life in space ...