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

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

A century after Heisenberg formulated his theory, the field has transformed our understanding of the physical world, yet many of its applications remain in development ...

Quantum mechanics has always had a way of making even the sharpest minds stop and scratch their heads. In the everyday world, ...

A strand of hair cuts across a laser beam, creating interference fringes on the wall of a science museum in New York City. High-school students use the spacing between bands to calculate the hair’s ...

One notable example is the $34 million secured by British quantum algorithms specialist Phasecraft from a group of investors, ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

Lauda and his colleagues solve some of the problems with topological qubits by using a class of theoretical particles they ...

When mathematicians revived ignored mathematical structures, they found that overlooked particles, called "neglectons," could ...

In the deadly game Russian roulette, a player loads a gun with a single bullet, spins the cylinder to randomize the bullet’s position, and turns the potentially lethal weapon on their own self. But in ...

It suggests your subjective experience might come from both your physical brain and the mysterious quantum activity within it.