For decades, physicists have struggled to reconcile the laws governing the very small with those that describe the vast ...

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

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

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

A new Big Bang model does away with speculative elements, putting gravitational waves at the forefront of the creation of ...

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

An international team of researchers has found a simple relationship between the rates of energy and information transmission across an interface connecting two quantum field theories. An ...

Nikhil Malvankar, a Mumbai-born professor at Yale has blended biology and quantum mechanics to uncover a microbial mystery ...

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is a material created by stacking two sheets of graphene onto each other, with a ...

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity into the same mathematical language as the other forces of nature. While the ...