Reality, as you know it, is about to get a serious upgrade. From quantum physics and weird facts about your body to ...

The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics are John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis, for the discovery of "Macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on 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 ...

The problem with quantum mechanics, or at least the reason even physicists don’t understand it, isn’t that it paints an unfamiliar picture of reality. It isn’t difficult to accept that the world of ...

One of the quietest places in the universe is an unremarkable room on the southern coast of the UK. Here, in one of the University of Southampton’s physics labs, overseen by Hendrik Ulbricht, a ...