As an applied mathematician, the tech firm’s founder shares his research that reveals quantum’s inflection point is here with ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum ...

A new Swinburne study is addressing a core paradox: if quantum computing is solving problems that cannot be checked by conventional methods, how can we be certain the results are correct? Quantum ...

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 ...

For more than a century, physicists have been trying to reconcile the smooth geometry of gravity with the jittery ...

Researchers unveiled a new technique that validates quantum computer results—especially those from GBS devices—in minutes ...

Professor Pan and his team recreated Einstein's thought experiment to demonstrate how the quantum world actually works.

In the 18th century, the scientific world was drunk on Newtonian certainty. The universe was a clockwork mechanism, ...

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 ...

A century-old debate ends as physicists prove Einstein wrong using single photons to test quantum theory with unprecedented ...

In the deadly game Russian roulette, a player loads a gun with a single bullet, spins the cylinder to randomize the bullet’s position, and turns the potentially lethal weapon on their own self. But in ...