Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced ...

Time has always seemed like the one thing physics could count on. Matter changes, stars die, particles flicker in and out, ...

Quantum physics is a prime example. It began as a highly controversial idea – as a fundamental branch of physics that ...

Scientists are a step closer to unraveling the mysterious forces of the universe after working out how to measure gravity on a microscopic level. Experts have never fully understood how the force that ...

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful ...

A physicist challenges the core idea of quantum mechanics, that events are truly random. He says a hidden framework of rules may influence outcomes. That’s because our current math makes quantum ...

To put one of physicists’ most important theories to the test, scientists go to extremes. Extremely strong electromagnetic fields, that is. The theory of quantum electrodynamics, which describes ...

Some researchers believe consciousness is a byproduct of the constantly firing web of neurons in our heads. However, others believe something more theoretical must be involved to explain our complex ...

Alfred University, the State University of New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and Classiq today announced a joint quantum computing initiative using Classiq’s quantum software ...

Quantum entanglement has long been understood as something that happens at the smallest possible scales, between individual ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...