A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer ...

Quantum entanglement happens when two particles become interconnected and share a single state. Scientists have measured how ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

A preliminary analysis suggests that industrially useful quantum computers designs come with a broad spectrum of energy ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

A new framework, built using Nvidia Omniverse, Microsoft Azure and accelerated Synopsys physics, has already been deployed by ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

When you step onto an icy sidewalk or push off on skis, the surface can seem to vanish beneath you. For more than a century, ...