So, get this – scientists have managed to get a quantum computer to do something pretty wild. They’ve basically made a ‘time ...

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While quantum computers can’t yet break the encryption software and protocols that protects the internet, experts seem to be reaching a consensus that the day that this could be a reality is about ...

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

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

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 ...

MIT Just Proved Einstein Wrong in the Famous Double-Slit Quantum Experiment MIT’s quantum experiment validates Bohr’s theory and disproves Einstein’s local realism using ultracold atoms and single ...