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 ...

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

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

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

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its full shape – and it could transform how we design materials ...

In the peculiar world of quantum mechanics, particles exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, and they can be described as having wave functions. Out of this strange world, the ...

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

Typically, quantum computers perform operations in a cryogenic environment and the heat generated by the system’s electronics ...