The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum ...

“What if it doesn’t work?” That single question has stalled more great ideas than a bad economy. The moment it grabs hold, your brain starts building a case for staying put. You see risk everywhere.

Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

"If you're using a counter, you have to define zero. You start counting at some point," physicist Marta Berholts from the University of Uppsala in Sweden, who led the team, explained to New Scientist ...

Learn how to implement SGD with momentum from scratch in Python—boost your optimization skills for deep learning.

Time machines don’t exist, but walking into Kumback Lunch in Perry, Oklahoma feels suspiciously like you’ve been transported back to another era. The neon-trimmed marquee outside proudly announces not ...

Why are the Higgs field and dark energy so weak? Find the answer and you could earn yourself a Nobel Prize, says Dr Karl. Around the year 1900, the astronomers had a big problem — "what powered the ...

For decades, quantum computing has felt like something out of science fiction — abstract, theoretical, and always “10 years ...

This study addresses an important question and shows how social navigation in homing pigeons can be explained by simple averaging, without requiring any complex cognitive abilities. The evidence, ...