A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

If quantum communication becomes mainstream, our entire approach to digital security could change.

A new study enhances hydrogen molecule predictions, achieving unprecedented precision in testing fundamental physics and ...

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

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These achievements, like many of the UB’s research endeavors, are poised to have a wide-ranging and long-lasting positive ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...