Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

What is the Q-Day prize? The Q-Day Prize is a challenge to make the Bitcoin network quantum resistant. On April 16, 2025, quantum computing-focused company Project 11 announced the “Q-Day Prize,” a ...

Quantum physics didn’t set out to explain the mind. It set out to explain matter. And yet, the deeper scientists went into ...

Quantum computers still look like lab toys: Racks of hardware, error-prone qubits and almost no real-world applications. Yet if you check the roadmaps of major layer-1 blockchains, a new priority now ...

The head of global investment research at Coinbase says that quantum computing poses significant risks to Bitcoin's security.