When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

Time already behaves strangely in modern physics. It can stretch, slow, and split depending on speed and gravity.

The Doodle falls on April 14, which marks "World Quantum Day." Here's everything to know about the latest Google Doodle and ...

In the quirky quantum world, particles can be affected by forces that they never directly encounter. A classic example is the ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level ...

For many of us, advanced physics can be tough to understand to begin with, which makes it all the more impressive whenever someone earns a Nobel Prize for advancing the field even further. The latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth curvature of spacetime, the other the jittery statistics of particles and ...