The world of quantum physics is mysterious. But what happens when that realm of subatomic particles is placed under immense pressure? A team led by physicists at Washington University in St. Louis has ...

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

Quantum computing is moving out of the lab and into real-world applications, with major institutions like JPMorgan Chase already demonstrating breakthroughs in cryptographic security. As this ...

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

This is what fun looks like for a particular set of theoretical chemists driven to solve extremely difficult problems: Deciding whether the electromagnetic fields in molecular polaritons should be ...

We have a broad and growing range of Active Matter guides, covering the game's weapons and healing items to how-to and ...

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 ...

For many business leaders, quantum computing feels like science fiction—a technology that’s exciting, but distant. That’s a ...

Wijit Thanesanurak/Shutterstock.com Addressing this noise might result in the best sensors ever created, with applications ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered the composition of stars at the age of 25: hydrogen, helium, and traces of nearly all other elements. Her 1925 discovery was one of the earliest successful attempts ...

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.

Luminary Cloud Inc., a startup that last year set out to disrupt the desktop-bound engineering software market with a ...