Science fiction sometimes uses quantum concepts to make the impossible seem plausible. But real-world developments will ...

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 ...

Why is quantum mechanics important? We are used to seeing the world at the macroscopic level. Our eye does not perceive what is really there at its microscopic level, and (maybe) it is better that way ...

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

The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.

The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery—and physicists are deeply divided about what is actually going on, a ...

CHICAGO — Shovels are in the ground for a highly anticipated project in South Chicago that its backers, including Gov. JB ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

If you asked a thousand physicists, they would all disagree. This statement could apply to any number of topics – whether the universe is infinite, what dark matter is made of, how to make wires ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

PsiQuantum has spent nearly a decade engineering the underlying components, from new types of semiconductors and optical ...