The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it.

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

It is as if one person said, ‘It is bitter cold in Chicago’; and another answered, ‘That is a fallacy, it is very hot in ...

Many governments and tech companies are investing heavily in quantum technologies. In New Zealand, the recently announced ...

Amid high expectations for quantum technology, a new paper in Science reports a proven quantum advantage. In an experiment, ...

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

Foundational research is paving the way for next-generation quantum sensors. Physicists in Australia and the United Kingdom ...

After decades of theory, prototypes, and incremental progress, quantum computing has entered a new era… The story began in earnest in the early 1980s, when Richard Feynman and Yuri Manin argued that ...

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The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

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 ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.