10:09 25 September 2009  | 26 comments

A "quantum dot" device that spews out a string of entangled photons is set to revolutionise optical quantum computing

11:18 21 September 2009  | 29 comments

A few years ago it seemed that quantum computing was about to be unleashed on the world. What happened?

19:39 15 September 2009  | 54 comments

Making living things act like quantum objects could become a reality with a new idea for trapping small objects

18:00 09 September 2009  | 53 comments

Particles approaching a black hole event horizon collide at energies way beyond those of accelerators on Earth, and could reveal new physics

12:58 04 September 2009  | 36 comments

A quantum method for cracking a common form of online security has been demonstrated in a quantum circuit printed onto a chip under 3 centimetres long

10:25 02 September 2009  | 34 comments

An oddly heavy kind of matter detected aboard a space shuttle in 1998 has not turned up in lunar soil brought back by an Apollo mission

09:00 31 August 2009  | 55 comments

With the Large Hadron Collider yet to restart, the less powerful – but working – Tevatron is piling up data and could find the Higgs boson first

00:00 26 August 2009  | 105 comments

Time seems to go only one way, but this might be because quantum mechanics destroys evidence to the contrary

18:00 12 August 2009  | 102 comments

"Quantum foam" – grainy bumps in the fabric of space-time – might explain why light from a distant galaxy arrived four minutes later than expected, offering clues about the real nature of gravity

16:42 10 August 2009  | 36 comments

The dream of quantum computing could be realised by handling data broken into five basic states, not just ones and zeros