In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

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Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Gravity is supposed to be the most familiar force in nature, yet at the deepest level it remains the least understood. A bold ...

Physicists working at ultra-low temperatures have stumbled onto a quantum phase that should not exist according to the usual ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...