A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Charles Kane is considered a 'founding father' in the field of topological insulators — materials that conduct electricity on ...

The Lorentz Medal, awarded every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Netherlands' ...

Bringing gravity into the fold has been the goal of generations of physicists, who have struggled to reconcile the incompatibility of two cornerstones of modern physics: quantum field theory and ...

On Aug. 1, Bob Ledoux took the helm as the Quantum New Mexico Institute’s director. He comes to the state from the Washington ...

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 ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of physics.

A hidden quantum geometry that distorts electron paths has finally been observed in real materials. This “quantum metric,” ...

University of Northern Iowa is leading a study into materials that could be applied to quantum technologies as part of a NSF grant.

My guests are Mario Krenn – who heads the Artificial Scientist Lab at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light ...

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...