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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A new discovery in physics can be exciting, but are scientists declaring quantum victory too soon? Many breakthroughs aren't ...

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 ...

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

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time self-induced superradiance in quantum particles, completely flipping what ...

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 ...