A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

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 live in an extraordinary era, one where science and technology advance at a staggering pace. Discoveries of invisible ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Recent discoveries in the realm of physics have pointed to the possibility of time anomalies that challenge our current ...

Scientists have finally unlocked a way to identify the elusive W state of quantum entanglement, solving a decades-old problem ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Being a quantum pioneer is turning out to be an expensive experiment. Quantum is still years away from widespread enterprise ROI. In late 2024, a major pharmaceutical company invested $50 million in ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...