In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom, held in place by laser ...

Many governments and tech companies are investing heavily in quantum technologies. In New Zealand, the recently announced Institute for Advanced Technology is also envisioned to focus on this area of ...

Quantum Computing Inc.'s shares may not be on the verge of reversal, but that may be more of a warning to short-sellers, who ...

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

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

Ask a bunch of physicists to explain a quantum experiment and you’re unlikely to get the same description twice. Everyone agrees that the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics is peerless at ...

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ...

A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, but their work is never ...

Fluorescent proteins can be turned into qubits within cells and could give us a deeper understanding of biology at the ...