What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them ...

Nearly half a century ago, physicists proposed that the universe might be trapped in a metastable state known as a false vacuum. This state appears stable but could, over immense timescales, ...

When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their ...

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes—individual molecules or ...

Sarah Sheldon, an engineering physicist from IBM, talks to Joe McEntee about the company’s efforts to open up the next ...

Qubits -- the fundamental units of quantum information -- drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be instrumental in building a large-scale quantum computer, but they rely ...