Nothing really exists in isolation. Almost every part of our lives exists in a network. Consciousness arises from what neurons do together, life from what genes and proteins do together, society from what we do together. When researchers…
Creative, interdisciplinary, and bold, the study of the origins of life has entered a new age. Welcome to Quanta Magazine’s special series on the origins of life. The post A New Era for the Dawn of Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Around 4.6 billion years ago, some 9 billion years after the birth of the universe, a cloud of gas and dust collapsed into the familiar blinding ball in our sky. Scraps of leftover material collided and accreted into the planets of the…
Kipu Quantum’s Rimay, a quantum feature extraction technology for machine learning, is now available through the IBM Quantum Functions Catalog. This gives IBM Quantum Flex and Premium Plan users direct access to Kipu’s quantum machine…
USC physicist Kelly Luo secured a $1 million Army Research Office award for her quantum research into spintronics, aiming for faster, more efficient electronics.
Kipu Quantum announced Rimay, its quantum feature extraction technology for machine learning, will be available through IBM Quantum Functions Catalog, giving IBM Quantum Flex and Premium Plan users direct access to Kipu’s quantum machine…
IQM researchers tested whether a quantum model running on IQM Emerald (54 qubits) and IQM Garnet (20 qubits) can outperform classical machine learning models on a classification task, using up to 45 qubits. The experiments used a dataset…
Quantum Computing Inc. reported $9.5M in revenue for the third quarter, surpassing first-half 2026 totals, with $13.0M from interest and investments.
Researchers achieved 67% efficiency in converting signals between light and millimeter waves using a novel electro-optic system, a triply resonant device.
Tree-Ising boosts Qwen3.5-2B performance on GSM8K, increasing greedy accuracy from 21.6% to 69.4% through bit-level weight edits and GPU optimization.
Long-range information can be stored in a locally created record—even one with no entanglement.
Neutral-atom qubits benefit from fast, non-destructive state detection, but cameras introduce latency.
CyberRisk Collaborative launches Post-Quantum Readiness, a Jan.
Far-field optical imaging has a limited resolution due to low-pass spatial filtering and suppression of high spatial frequency components under noise, particularly shot noise. A method, termed Fourier Domain Division (FDD), was proposed…
The Nvidia board is now considering the future of CEO Jensen Huang, following reports of affairs with both a company executive, Kimberly Powell, and a suspected Chinese intelligence asset.
Broadcom is funding 26 Caltech researchers as part of a five-year collaboration to advance quantum science, exploring how it intersects with AI.
DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative—specifically, Stage C—validates if quantum systems deliver value, and IonQ is now undergoing this “prove it” phase with real-hardware testing.
Can quantum computers justify their cost in drug discovery?
Xanadu’s Q3 financials show revenue of $1.3 million, alongside $286.5M cash on hand, as the company advances photonic quantum computing & Backline with AMD.
Recent advances in transmission electron microscopy (TEM) have opened the path toward spin resonance spectroscopy with single-spin sensitivity, and researchers are investigating the quantum precision limits for sensing magnetic moments…
Researchers found that zinc doping alters the superconducting properties of iron selenide (FeSe) while preserving its two-gap superconducting state, providing new experimental evidence for understanding superconductivity in iron-based…
The Bloch Quantum Tech Hub will be governed by a board including universities, colleges, companies, national labs, and economic development and manufacturing organizations, designed to support building a domestic quantum supply chain. This…
Quandela and Hermes-Epitek Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding on November 12 to develop and industrialize photonic quantum technologies, starting with a joint R&D programme. A later phase would involve installing a quantum…
Nature Physics, Published online: 12 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03499-7 Quantum channels can be used to describe the evolution of quantum states, including both unitary evolution and measurement. Now the optimal number of uses…
Can standard checks reliably prepare encoded magic states without undetected errors creeping into high-rate quantum computations? Simulations now reveal logical error rates suppressed to levels matching code distance, an improvement over…
Quantum investment surged in 2025, exceeding $10 billion, nearly four times the total from the previous year. This leap underscores accelerating economic activity demanding objective analysis within quantum technologies, now tracked with…
Researchers used data from ORCA Computing’s PT-2 photonic processor to refine malware detection, comparing it to classical methods.
Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) codes encode qubits in the continuous phase space of oscillators, but no dynamical formalism has been developed for them. This work introduces dynamical GKP codes, combining continuous-variable lattice…
This study introduces a pool-free VITE method, growing ansatz layers based on a predetermined, nested commutator structure.
Quantum correlations between distant spins can be enhanced by monitoring intermediate cavities and feeding measurement records back—a process of local feedback—even for spins receiving no direct input.
Until now, explorations into applying quantum computing to medical imaging remained largely theoretical calculations; reported studies evaluate nearly all published systems on small, downsampled data or simulations instead. This review…
Rigetti Computing announced $1.4m in revenue for the third quarter of 2026, with a $3.1m net loss, and secured a potential $100m deal from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
D-Wave announced 21% revenue growth in Q3 2026, reaching $4.5 million, and secured a definitive agreement for up to $100 million in US CHIPS Act funding.
At SC26, Classiq will showcase how its software connects HPC environments to quantum hardware, featuring live demos at booth #5442, November 15–20.
For well over 4 billion years, the fire of metabolism has powered the engines of life. The ability of cells to gather, transform, and harness chemical energy from their surroundings is the central force driving the dizzyingly complex…
Nature Physics, Published online: 11 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03532-9 Altermagnets host spin-split bands despite zero net magnetization. A photonic crystal now reproduces this symmetry-driven phenomenon using circular…
At its core, every cell is just a bubble of chemistry sealed inside a membrane. In modern cells, that chemistry is extraordinarily complex, orchestrating some 1 billion reactions per second. Likewise, its container, the lipid membrane, is…
There’s scarcely any corner of Earth in which life hasn’t gained a foothold. Living organisms shape the clouds, the climate, even the rocks. But how life first appeared on a barren planet some 4 billion years ago remains one of the biggest…
Nature Physics, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03505-y Active matter can exhibit turbulent or coherent flows. Now it is shown that active flows can entangle DNA polymers, leading to a non-equilibrium transition…
Nature Physics, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03519-6 Resonances in ultracold collisions couple to scattering states, causing interactions and loss. Now it is shown that the interference of Feshbach resonances…
Nature Physics, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03515-w Defining the solar radius is not as easy as it might seem. José Vaquero tells us a story of eclipses, meridian lines, astronomical archives and space…
Nature Physics, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03543-6 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 has been awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of…
Nature Physics, Published online: 09 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41567-026-03525-8 The cost of easy answers
One of a human’s earliest developmental milestones is an understanding of object permanence. It generally takes less than a year for a baby to realize that when an adult hides their face behind their hands in a game of peek-a-boo, they…