A teenager from Belgium has just vaulted from prodigy to pioneer, completing a PhD in quantum physics at 15 and immediately ...

For more than a century, physicists have been trying to reconcile the smooth geometry of gravity with the jittery ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

Quantum computing is entering a critical phase as researchers say scaling to millions of qubits is the biggest challenge and ...

This week’s cover of Science features a graphic symbolizing the Greek letter Ψ (psi), which represents the wave function, a ...

As an applied mathematician, the tech firm’s founder shares his research that reveals quantum’s inflection point is here with ...

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest. When ...

Max Born made many contributions to quantum theory. This said, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1954 for ...

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 ...

In the deadly game Russian roulette, a player loads a gun with a single bullet, spins the cylinder to randomize the bullet’s position, and turns the potentially lethal weapon on their own self. But in ...

A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the universe would fall apart if it all remained unchanged. This theory tries to ...