Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

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A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be ...

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What does the passage of time look like for a truly quantum object? The world’s best clocks may soon be able to answer this question, testing how time can stretch and shift in the quantum realm and ...

As the world races ahead with rockets, satellites, AI, and the search for extraterrestrial life, there’s a quieter yet equally fierce competition underway: the race for quantum computing. The ...