Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television ...

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 ...

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

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

Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

Unless you're a physicist, you've probably only encountered quantum mechanics on TV. And even when it was explained, you might've still been a little confused. The field of quantum mechanics was ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ...

In March, D-Wave announced it performed a materials simulation using quantum technology. A few weeks later, Quantinuum published a paper in Nature detailing how it used the company’s six-qubit ...

Quantum computing is generating a lot of excitement in the tech world right now. Following several recent breakthroughs, this once theoretical technology is increasingly accessible to researchers and ...

The concept of quantum entanglement is emblematic of the gap between classical and quantum physics. Referring to a situation ...

During his PhD at UMass, Nikhil Malvankar was laser-focused on quantum mechanics and the movement of electrons in ...

Stress is a very real factor in the structure of our universe. Not the kind of stress that students experience when taking a ...