From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics
2025’s Nobel Prize in Physics is a tribute to the scientists who first discovered quantum behaviors in a macroscopic electrical circuit.
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A new kind of physics? Stephen Wolfram has a radical plan to build the universe from dots and lines
Mathematical maverick Stephen Wolfram’s latest ambitious project calls on members of the public to help him find the rules that control the world.
Diamonds aren’t forever
Contrary to the title of the 1971 James Bond film, the earth’s hardest naturally-occurring material, diamond, does not last…
Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane
The experimental sensor could be groundbreaking.
China’s quantum satellite could make data breaches a thing of the past
The Micius satellite will encrypt data using fundamental laws of physics rather than crackable codes.
Teleporting Schrodinger’s cat’s not easy, but it’s all right miaow
Quantum teleportation has been in the news before but last week Japanese and Australian scientists went one better, managing to teleport every physicist’s favourite feline: Schrödinger’s cat. Before you…
Nobel prize: physicists share prize for insights into the spooky world of quantum mechanics
The discovery that particles can be spookily connected has lead to a technological revolution.
EU is cracking down on AI, but leaves a loophole for mass surveillance
The strong new laws will ban AI applications believed to violate EU citizens’ fundamental rights.
What is an algorithm? How computers know what to do with data
A close look at how you decide what clothes to put on in the morning can help you understand how computers work.
Our neurodata can reveal our most private selves. As brain implants become common, how will it be protected?
Several companies are in the process of commercialising invasive brain-computer interfaces, including Synchron, Neuralink and Precision Neuroscience.
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