Microsoft created a whole new state of matter to make its quantum chip
In Marvel’s Iron Man 2, the protagonist, Tony Stark, creates a new element to power the arc reactor in his chest and the mech suit he wears in superhero mode.…
Google says quantum computing applications are five years away
A few weeks ago at CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang posited that practical uses of quantum computing were about 20 years away. Today, Google’s head of quantum Hartmut Neven…
What Is a Quantum Battery? And When Will It Power My Laptop?
The modern battery has come a long way in its 224-year history. In the place of Alessandro Volta’s piles of metal disks and brine-soaked cloth, we now have batteries the…
Apple Updates iMessage With a New ‘Post-Quantum’ Encryption Protocol
Apple has rolled out an update to iMessage encryption, the likes of which includes post-quantum protections that the company calls the “most significant cryptographic security upgrade” in the messenger’s history.…
Physicists Simulate Time Travel Using Quantum Entanglement
The quantum world operates by different rules than the classical one we buzz around in, allowing the fantastical to the bizarrely normal. Now, a team of physicists has used quantum…
Here’s why everyone’s talking about room temperature superconductors
Room temperature superconductors are a scientific holy grail. They’re like economically viable carbon capture, nuclear rocket engines, or energy net-positive fusion reactions. They’re something that should be doable, we think…
Inside the U.K. lab that connects brains to quantum computers
Scientists at the University of Plymouth are in the early stages of developing tech that would allow humans to control quantum computers with their thoughts.
IBM’s new 127-qubit processor is a major breakthrough in quantum computing
IBM has announced its latest quantum processor, named Eagle, which achieves a major breakthrough in the quantum computing industry.
Researchers create ‘missing jigsaw piece’ in development of quantum computing
Researchers say they have made a massive leap forward and found the “missing jigsaw piece” to improve the architecture of quantum computing chips.
Here’s everything you need to know about the dawn of the quantum internet
In a huge breakthrough, a team of researchers from Caltech, Fermilab, AT&T, Harvard, NASA, and the University of Calgary teleported quantum information over a fiber-optic network of 44 kilometres. Achieving…