The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

This is what fun looks like for a particular set of theoretical chemists driven to solve extremely difficult problems: ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring ...

The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.

Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...

Recent progress in both analog and digital quantum simulations heralds a future in which quantum computers could simulate — and thereby illuminate — physical phenomena that are far too complex for ...

Gravity, long the sovereign force in the cosmic hierarchy, may be little more than a statistical side effect a byproduct of entropy, not a fundamental interaction. That is the provocative assertion ...

English professor lands $400K National Science Foundation grant to improve learning in humanities and science.

For centuries, the concept of consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scientists alike. Often deemed too abstract for scientific exploration, consciousness has been largely left to philosophical ...

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 ...

Scientists have linked nuclear spins inside silicon chips, marking a leap toward scalable quantum computers. Engineers at UNSW have achieved a major breakthrough in quantum computing by creating what ...