Picture the smartphone in your pocket, the data centers powering artificial intelligence, or the wearable health monitors ...

Seventy years ago, in Osmond Laboratory on Penn State's University Park campus, Erwin W. Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor ...

The small but ubiquitous proton serves as a foundation for the bulk of the visible matter in the universe. It abides at the ...

The pulse of an atom's magnetic heart as it ticks back and forth between quantum states has been timed in a laboratory.

Scientists from Auburn University have proposed a new mechanism to control some of the thinnest electronic memory devices ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have observed the magnetic nucleus of an atom flipping ...

Everyday technology—smartphones, artificial intelligence data centers, wearable health trackers—depends on memory chips that ...

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 ...

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

Ohio University’s particle accelerator allows physics students to study and experiment with no limits to their learning.

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...