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quantum gravity

Man peers at dangling circuitry

Technology

Quantum computing race heats up as trapped ions rival microchips

Superconducting chips were the front runner for use in future quantum computers, but now trapped ions are showing they can perform just as well

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Artwork showing a cube bearing circuitry and with light beams apparently playing on it

Technology

Error fix for long-lived qubits brings quantum computers nearer

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quantum artwork 1

Physics

Collapse: Has quantum theory's greatest mystery been solved?

Features

What appears to be the same cat entwined in seven different ways with a box

Physics

Seven ways to skin Schrödinger’s cat

Features

Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Features

Ions held in place by a laser

Technology

Record number of ions get entangled together in a quantum trap

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A tabby cat's face peeking out of a box, green eye

Physics

Schrödinger's cat alive and dead even after you saw it in half

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free will

Physics

Physics killed free will and time's flow. We need them back

Features

Graph showing the gravitational wave signal from LIGO

Space

Gravitational waves: Your cheat sheet on the find of the decade

Features

Layout of 5-cubit device

Technology

Try your hand at programming IBM's online quantum computer

The tech giant is working on large-scale quantum computers, so has put an older, smaller model online for anyone to use

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Physics

Beech marten halts LHC after chewing on a power cable

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Space

That's odd: Quantum entanglement mangles space and time

Features

Physics

That's odd: Why is gravity so weak?

Features

Technology

Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck

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