Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That's normal physics. But in the quantum world, ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

You don’t need a science degree to start learning about quantum physics—many books are written with beginners in mind. Mixing ...

You don’t need to be a math genius to start learning quantum physics; many books break it down simply. There are books that ...

Quantum defects are tiny imperfections in solid crystal lattices that can trap individual electrons and their "spin" (i.e., ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a startup using AI to track pathogens, a quantum cooling breakthrough and ...

Physicist Michel Devoret reflects on the skepticism that surrounded the early days of research on macroscopic quantum tunneling. This phenomenon earned him the Nobel Prize on Tuesday, alongside two ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...

NES the following year. With its killer app firmly established, the NES would begin its pop culture takeover that lasted well into the Nineties, amounting to a nearly 62 million units sold across all ...

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...