This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are pioneering the design and synthesis of quantum ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

A new framework for understanding the nonmonotonic temperature dependence and sign reversal of the chirality-related ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed the extra publicity, though ...

A strand of hair cuts across a laser beam, creating interference fringes on the wall of a science museum in New York City. High-school students use the spacing between bands to calculate the hair’s ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

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 ...