Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and ...

A team of German physicists has built a fully working version of quantum mechanics that uses only real numbers. Complex ...

An electron is supposed to be indivisible. It carries one fundamental unit of electric charge, and every electron is exactly ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

An illustration of physics equations being bent and warped. New research has found a way to accurately predict quantum interactions without using complex numbers. | Credit: vitacopS via Getty Images ...

Electron microscopes are used wherever particularly small details need to be imaged. But from a strictly physical point of ...

A quantum machine has used entangled qubits to generate a number certified as truly random for the first time, demonstrating a handy function that's physically beyond even the most powerful ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Chip-based device paves the way for scalable and secure random number generation, an essential building block for future digital infrastructure Chip-based device paves the way for scalable and secure ...