She is a quantum physicist and string theorist, who earned her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. Tao Science is the culmination of her more than 20 years’ work on the ...

Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious, because in the world we see ...

Can artificial intelligence solve one of physics' greatest unsolved mysteries—quantum gravity? Breakthrough Prize-winning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Martinis with his wife, Jean, in their living room in Santa Barbara after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his ...

What really happens in the quantum world? In this conversation, physicist Sean Carroll explores some of the deepest mysteries in quantum mechanics: the famous double-slit experiment, wave function ...

The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery—and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a ...

An international team has confirmed that large quantum systems really do obey quantum mechanics. Using Bell’s test across 73 qubits, they proved the presence of genuine quantum correlations that can’t ...

Quantum physics is often described as the most successful scientific framework in history. In its 100 years of existence, it has explained everything from the periodic table of the elements to how ...

A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

A California physicist and Nobel laureate who laid the foundation for quantum computing isn't done working. For the last 40 years, John Martinis has worked—mostly within California—to create the ...