When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

For decades, quantum physics and general relativity have stood as two powerful but separate theories. Quantum physics explains the behavior of tiny particles like atoms and photons.

Researchers have achieved a remarkable result: capturing and studying phase changes in quantum hardware, which hold hold promise for next-generation technologies like quantum computing and ultra ...

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Google is unveiling a new quantum computing chip. Will it help unlock the secrets of the universe?

When a German physicist returned from a health retreat 100 years ago, his ideas sparked a debate about reality, and gave rise ...

By contrast, the X‑37B experiment is designed as a compact, high-performance, resilient inertial navigation unit for real world, long-duration missions. It moves atom interferometry out of the realms ...

Today, the new technological frontier is quantum science, which enables otherwise impossible advances in many other fields. Every company in the nascent U.S. quantum industry is built entirely upon ...