For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity. One explains the tiny world of particles; the other describes ...

Return to Helgoland: celebrating 100 years of quantum mechanics The final after-dinner speaker was science journalist Philip Ball, who explained how quantum theory developed in 1924–25 in the run-up ...

More information: Daniel González-Cuadra et al, Observation of string breaking on a (2 + 1)D Rydberg quantum simulator, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09051-6 ...

Meanwhile in 2025 we celebrate 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics, which lead to this powerful yet baffling computing style that can't even run Doom.

The CQE’s mission is "to lead the nation to an inclusive and sustainable quantum economy by connecting leading academic talent, top scientific facilities, and a diverse industry base that ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of ...

A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their paper published in Science Advances, the group explains that their ...

Physicists have created the first two-dimensional version of the Bose glass, a novel phase of matter that challenges statistical mechanics. Physicists from the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge ...

Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

They instigated the development of quantum mechanics in 1900 and 1905, respectively, when they discovered that light exists in discrete, or “quantum,” bundles of energy.