Scientists are using anesthesia to probe the quantum roots of consciousness—and the research offers tantalizing evidence.

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum ...

In 2022 three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving something astonishing: the universe is not locally real. In other words, particles don’t have fixed properties until they are ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

For a future quantum internet to work, scientists need to perfect a quantum repeater that can send information over long ...

Researchers used IBM’s quantum computers to create scalable quantum circuits that simulate matter under extreme conditions, offering new insight into fundamental forces and the origins of the universe ...

Galaxies are flying ever farther apart. While our expanding universe is a perfectly valid solution to the equations of general relativity, physicists have increasingly realized that its growth spells ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Everyone's racing to build the most powerful quantum computer. But what if the winner is the one that plays nicest with ...