Elliott Lieb has been awarded the 2022 Gauss Prize for outstanding contributions to physics, chemistry, and pure mathematics.
Explore a mystery that intrigued Stephen Hawking until the end of his life.
Does reality arise from information? What does this even mean? Anton Zeilinger explains the impact of John Wheeler's radical idea.
The fuzziness of the quantum realm could arise from mathematical restrictions on what can ever be known.
In The Neverending Story a little boy named Bastian discovers that there's something extraordinary about the book he's smuggled into his backpack: it changes as he reads it. The act of reading "The Neverending Story" Bastian finds, is simultaneously the act of writing it. Could our universe be in a similar loop?
A closer look at one of the simplest quantum algorithms.
What will quantum computers be able to do that ordinary computers can't do?
What's stopping us from building useful quantum computers? And how long until we'll have them?
An untapped resource could provide the magic needed for quantum computation — and perhaps even open the door to time travel.