The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead of electrons to perform computational operations—has been around for decades. However, interest has resurged in recent years; the potential for ...

While many plans for quantum computers transmit data using the particles of light known as photons, researchers from the ...

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains Quantum Mechanics - the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of ...

The concept of quantum entanglement is emblematic of the gap between classical and quantum physics. Referring to a situation ...

A quantum computer that uses particles of light took about two dozen microseconds to complete a calculation that may take ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The Large Hadron Collider may soon uncover the secrets of dark photons. Should we be scared? (Spoiler: no). Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok lost its mind over news that the Large Hadron Collider — ...

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The KM3NeT underwater telescope detects a record-breaking neutrino of hundreds of PeV, marking the beginning of a new era.

Physicists predict a 90 percent chance of witnessing a primordial black hole explosion this decade, testing Hawking’s most ...