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

In classical physics, anything driven hard enough will eventually heat up, lose coherence, and settle into disorder. A new ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

Pittsburgh Physicists Expose Flaw in How Quantum Breakthroughs Are Claimed In A Nutshell The solution: share complete ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

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 ...

Quantum computing is a complex marriage of math, physics and IT that will take society’s achievements to amazing new levels.

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

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 ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...