Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth ...

Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems.

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Quantum physics has a reputation for needing exotic hardware, from liquid-helium-cooled qubits to sprawling AI clusters, just to crunch through basic simulations. Now a new “physics shortcut” is ...

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with ...

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through this eBook ...

Quantum communication saw major progress, including longer-distance demonstrations and systems that operate closer to ...

Machine learning techniques that make use of tensor networks could manipulate data more efficiently and help open the black ...

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 ...