A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a significant discovery regarding ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

The pioneer of quantum computing talks about how Albert Einstein would have reacted to his experiments, the hype around the ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

Is the electron a wave or a particle? Are the orbits of electrons in atoms similar to planetary orbits? What is the nature of light? Such were the questions that physicists were struggling with in the ...

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 ...

Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...

In the 1920s, when quantum mechanics was young, physicists Jane Dewey and Laura Chalk performed some of the first experimental tests of the theory, based on a phenomenon called the Stark effect. Later ...

On the morning of June 28, 1914, a Bosnian Serb student named Gavrilo Princip stood outside Moritz Schiller’s delicatessen near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo. Sometime after 10:45 A.M., a motorcade ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.