Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly ...

Quantum computers could one day blow boring old classical computers out of the water, but so far their complexity limits their usefulness. Engineers at Stanford have now demonstrated a new relatively ...

It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to physically show it's ...

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...

A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, ...

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The quantum world is famously weird—a single particle can be in two places at once, its properties are undefined until they ...

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 ...