As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

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

A team of physicists has created a cloud of ultracold atoms that stubbornly resists the most basic rule of everyday ...

Quantum communication saw major progress, including longer-distance demonstrations and systems that operate closer to ...

A stable "exceptional fermionic superfluid," a new quantum phase that intrinsically hosts singularities known as exceptional ...

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

Setting aside the insane upheaval going on i n US science, this year’s Physics World Live series will give you a sense of what’s hot in physics right now.

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

The race to harness quantum mechanics for computing power is finally colliding with the real economy. After a century of ...

The US administration is banking on public-private partnerships and an expanded workforce to deliver progress, but critics ...

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 ...

In the pantheon of modern physics, few figures can match the quiet authority of Gerard ’t Hooft. The theoretical physicist, now a professor emeritus at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, has spent ...