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

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Quantum computing has long promised breakthroughs in chemistry, logistics, finance, and climate modeling, but the hardware ...

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

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the werewolf turns into a human. In carefully engineered ...

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

A new breakthrough may help scientists solve some of the mysteries of the quantum realm. For the first time, physicists have been able to measure the geometrical 'shape' a lone electron adopts as it ...

The true danger isn't just that quantum computers will read our emails. It's that they'll fundamentally change what's ...

Chinese scientists have proposed a new theoretical explanation for one of the oldest mysteries of physics — why time only ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...