Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope revealed Jupiter’s moons and shook the geocentric universe. Thomas Young’s ...

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

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

A team of physicists say they have found a way to sidestep Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the more troublesome ...

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

The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical ...

New landmark peer-reviewed paper published in Science, “Beyond-Classical Computation in Quantum Simulation,” unequivocally validates D-Wave’s achievement of the world’s first and only demonstration of ...

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 ...