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

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Chinese team is first outside the US to cross key threshold that determines whether practical quantum computers can work ...

A further benefit is that the channels can be multiplexed, allowing many quantum processors to access the system at the same ...

If you are anything like me, you are almost always charging your smartphone. What you might not realise is that the ability to do so safely depends on a delicate quantum measurement at the cutting ...