Theoretical physicist Professor Brian Greene joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning quantum physics questions. Is ...

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When astronomers talk about directly imaging an exoplanet orbiting a faraway star, the analogy they most commonly use is ...

This video provides a simple explanation of symmetry and gauge theory, focusing on their foundational role in physics. It ...

First formulated in 1935, the famous thought experiment attempts to explain the weirdness of quantum superposition, but a new study shows that this theoretical feline is really only the beginning of ...

The comic is the latest step in a broader effort by the institute to make science more engaging. In 2025, IIT Kanpur established the Centre for Educational Research and Teaching Excellence (CERTEX) to ...

Liang said that the chip's key indicators, including the lifetime of its qubits, its gate fidelity and the depth of its ...

To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...