Yuqing Lin is electrified by physics. "In introductory physics, we learn about how electrons would move and these very simple laws that explain the behaviors of electrons and materials," said Lin, a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Pure plays like IonQ and D-Wave Quantum are high-risk, high-reward investments. Alphabet and Microsoft need quantum computing for their cloud computing services. Nvidia is bridging the gap between ...

Physics professor Charles Kane was awarded the 2025 Lorentz Medal for his research in quantum physics on Wednesday. The Lorentz Medal, awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts ...

Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on heart, you didn’t feel something. Modern archaeology, for ...

In today’s world, quantum technology is no longer a far-off concept that is just a theoretical physics concept. In the not-too-distant future, it will become a disruptive force that has the capacity ...

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed the extra publicity, though ...

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 ...

Scientists uncovered universal laws of entanglement in any dimension. The results strengthen links between particle physics, quantum theory, and gravity. A group of theoretical physicists has shown ...

Physicists at the University of Vermont have cracked a problem that has puzzled scientists for nearly a century: how to describe the atomic equivalent of a fading guitar string. Their new model ...

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems. The macroscopic realm, which consists of everything from falling balls to orbiting planets, can be explained by ...

“How quantum mechanics and gravity fit together is one of the most important outstanding problems in physics,” Kathryn Zurek, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ...