It is called quantum reconstruction, and it amounts to trying to rebuild the theory from scratch based on a few simple principles. If these efforts succeed, it’s possible that all the apparent oddness ...

String theory is perhaps the most high-profile candidate for what physicists call a theory of everything – a single ...

Scientists have shown for the first time that entanglement, the mysterious link between quantum particles, can be reversibly manipulated just like heat or energy in a perfect thermodynamic cycle.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum ...

Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most unintuitive theory ever devised. And yet it’s also the most successful, in terms of sheer predictive power. Simply by following the math of quantum ...

Physicists are trying to rewrite the axioms of quantum theory from scratch in an effort to understand what it all means. The problem? They’ve been almost too successful.