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

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

The year 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of quantum mechanics. In the century since the field’s inception, scientists and engineers have used quantum mechanics to create technologies ...

Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

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

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest. When ...

The ball rolls across the floor because it was kicked, just as Earth orbits the sun because it is tugged by gravity. The connection between cause and effect is fundamental to how we understand the ...