Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Popular books about quantum mechanics almost invariably dazzle and astonish, offering tantalising glimpses into ...

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With his new book of popular science, Carlo Rovelli has struck gold. By Michael Brooks Carlo Rovelli has struck gold. This book began life as a series of articles in the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 ...

“There’s a whole quest to build a quantum computer,” Frank Verstraete, one of Belgium’s top quantum physicist, tells me. “All the big technology companies like Google and Amazon and IBM are pouring in ...

A team of theoretical researchers used thermal effective theory to demonstrate that quantum entanglement follows universal rules across all dimensions. Their study was published online in Physical ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth curvature of spacetime, the other the jittery statistics of particles and ...

A team at the University of Oxford has coaxed a single trapped ion into a quantum state so exotic it has no classical ...

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