As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

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In the coming years, UNESCO will continue to promote interdisciplinary cooperation and multilateral dialogue to ensure that ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time self-induced superradiance in quantum particles, completely flipping what ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...

A new discovery in physics can be exciting, but are scientists declaring quantum victory too soon? Many breakthroughs aren't ...