Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the prize announcement, cheers and excitement have surrounded the home institutions of these laureates in Berkeley, Santa ...

John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M. Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at a press conference in Stockhom, Sweden October ...

Technological devices are getting ever smaller, but as they approach the scale at which quantum physics matters, our understanding of how they interact with their environment evaporates. James Millen ...

Picture Victorian London, but its skies are filled with airships. Steam-powered robots crowd the streets, mingling with people in top hats and petticoats. That type of retrofuturistic mash-up is the ...

Quantum computing isn't just sci-fi anymore. D-Wave Quantum, a pioneer in quantum systems, has skyrocketed an eye-popping 467.07% YTD, leaving both the Russell 2000 (up 18.88%) and S&P 500 (27.62%) in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Since the prize announcement, cheers and excitement have surrounded the home ...