These women helped to shape quantum mechanics — it’s time to recognize them
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What breaks quantum monogamy? Electron crowding delivers a surprise
Are quantum particles polygamous? New experiments suggest some of them abandon long-standing partnerships when conditions get crowded. Quantum…
Physicists Turn Quantum Chaos Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Quantum mechanics controls reality on the smallest levels, but when scaled up, it’s often difficult to gauge how…
Quantum mechanics help crack hidden chemistry of ice
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Scientists Made a Quantum Leap in the Fifth State of Matter
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How quantum physics is making weapons smarter, not bigger
These advances could lead to dual-use risks as quantum tools can boost irregular warfare through cheap, portable jammers…
Trigger-based single photons generated on demand for quantum tech
Light already carries our phone calls, videos, and emails across the world through optical fibers, but the same…
China’s new quantum computer hits stability milestone, beating Google on efficiency
Chinese researchers have taken a major step in the global race to build practical quantum computers, becoming the…
The Nature Podcast highlights of 2025
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19.2-attosecond X-ray pulse lets scientists freeze electron motion
Electrons just got caught in the act. For decades, scientists have known that electrons quietly dictate almost everything,…
Low-threshold lasing from colloidal quantum dots under quasi-continuous-wave excitation
Chemicals Cadmium oxide (CdO, 99.5%, trace metals basis), zinc acetate 99.99%, trace metals basis), oleylamine (70%, technical grade),…
Qubits break long-held quantum limit by evolving in superposed time paths
For decades, physicists believed that even the strangest quantum objects had a hard limit on how strongly their…