Somewhere under the pile of press releases, sci-fi-looking graphics and announcements full of scientific jargon, quantum became a persistent object of great curiosity in the Times Free Press newsroom.

Quantum teleportation has finally stepped out of pristine laboratory loops and into the messy reality of live internet cables. For the first time, researchers have shown that fragile quantum ...

A research team has, for the first time in the world, elucidated the microscopic mechanism by which quantum order is lost and ...

Future quantum computers will need to be less powerful than we thought to threaten the security of encrypted messages.

With all the news in the quantum world this month—including DARPA’s new list of the most viable quantum companies, and Quantinuum’s announcement of “the most accurate quantum computer in the ...

Physicists have put thousands of atoms into a "Schrödinger's cat" state — smashing the record for the most macroscopic object to be observed in a quantum state. In a new study, researchers observed ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly through motion. That insight laid the foundation for thermodynamics, the ...

But after reading Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism, a book published in March 2025 by the physicist Wojciech Zurek, I’m excited by the possibility of an answer that does away with all those fanciful ...