Quantum technology has reached a turning point, echoing the early days of modern computing. Researchers say functional quantum systems now exist, but scaling them into truly powerful machines will ...

THE WhatsApp message from IBM was ominous: four to six inches of snow was expected over Troy, New York and many places nearby ...

Forty years later, Cheryl McNair remembers the shock of watching the Challenger space shuttle fall to pieces with her husband, astronaut Ronald McNair, onboard. “Now what?” Cheryl McNair, now in her ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

The steps to solving it actually started with a golf physics lesson. And what I learned that day can help any golfer start on ...

By squeezing terahertz light beyond its usual limits, researchers have exposed hidden quantum "jiggles" inside a ...

How do you create an inquisitive mind? Simply accumulating knowledge isn't good enough, suggest Lei Bao and colleagues (Am. J. Phys. 77, 1118–1123; 2009). Specifically, the teaching and learning of ...

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired and offers lessons for today ...

The physics of the spiral pass have baffled physicists and football fans for decades. EMILY KWONG, HOST: ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with which they ...