We’ve had quantum science on our minds all year long, courtesy of 2025 being UNESCO’s International Year of Quantum Science ...

Physicists have identified a new superfluid phase in a class of quantum systems that, until recently, looked too unstable and ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Researchers at Google have used their Willow quantum computer to demonstrate that "quantum contextuality" may be a crucial ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

In physics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment in which a cat is trapped in a box with a particle that has a 50-50 ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

At the smallest scales, heat engines can do more than Carnot ever imagined. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have ...

Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means is up for interpretation.