This is what fun looks like for a particular set of theoretical chemists driven to solve extremely difficult problems: Deciding whether the electromagnetic fields in molecular polaritons should be ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

Maimonides states that God's role as the cause of everything means that all existence depends on Him constantly. If God were to stop existing, everything else would also cease to exist. Every existing ...

Gravity, long the sovereign force in the cosmic hierarchy, may be little more than a statistical side effect a byproduct of entropy, not a fundamental interaction. That is the provocative assertion ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum mechanics to infinitely intricate mathematical structures. Hofstadter was ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. If there is a beginning time point for the Age of Scientific Reversal, it may be ...

Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

For many business leaders, quantum computing feels like science fiction—a technology that’s exciting, but distant. That’s a ...

New finding advances our understanding of complex topological quantum systems and could help in the development of next-generation memory and storage devices ...

IonQ has prepared the groundwork for its quantum computers to seamlessly integrate into real-world applications. IonQ is preparing compatible trapped-ion quantum computers for major cloud platforms.

P hysicists at MIT have achieved a major feat, capturing a bizarre quantum effect called second sound on film, where heat ...