A research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a new method to uncover the atomic origins of unusual ...

Quantum computing promises to solve the seemingly unsolvable in fields such as physics, medicine, cryptography and more.

An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an ...

For centuries, the concept of consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scientists alike. Often deemed too abstract for ...

Does quantum physics place limits on the extent to which we have free will? This long-debated question stems from the way different physicists interpret the mathematics of quantum theory, but now ...

Albert Einstein famously disliked quantum theory’s understanding that physical objects, including light, exist as both a particle and a wave, and that this duality could not be simultaneously observed ...

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

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

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in physics." The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may ...