The world of quantum physics is already mysterious, but what happens when that strange realm of subatomic particles is put ...

Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ...

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 ...

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

A quantum computer has reached new heights. The first quantum computer in space is now orbiting Earth on a satellite, scientists report. Launched on June 23, the computer had to be designed to fit in ...

A ‘quantum processor’ has solved a physics problem on the behaviour of magnetism in certain solids that would take the largest conventional supercomputers hundreds of thousands of years to calculate.

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We flock to beaches for it, cats and other animals bask in it, the quality of photographs lives and dies by it, and a person’s mood (and vitamin D level) gets a boost from it. Although it has known ...