Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a “quantum camera ...

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a significant discovery regarding ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

MKS Inc. (NASDAQ: MKSI), a global provider of enabling technologies that transform our world, will showcase its latest ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Researchers have demonstrated for the first time self-induced superradiance in quantum particles, completely flipping what ...

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 pioneer of quantum computing talks about how Albert Einstein would have reacted to his experiments, the hype around the ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...