A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural imagination, Caleb Femi’s rave-influenced poetry collection and new novels by Adam ...

Tractor beams using light or sound have existed for a while. Lasers can be used to create optical tweezers, a development that got Arthur Ashkin a Nobel prize in 2018 – so it is possible to move and ...

Quantum computing expert Daniel Lidar explains what problems scientists are still trying to overcome to make quantum ...

Quantum computing has moved from theoretical concept to business reality, with corporations already implementing solutions ...

Quantum researchers have long believed that strong spin interactions in qubits required covalent bonds, making large-scale ...

A search for particles’ most paradoxical quantum states led researchers to construct a 37-dimensional experiment ...

An article published in the journal Optica describes the development of a new experimental device that explores the boundary ...

Paying homage to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy of books and to the film Interstellar, our readers consider the upsides ...

The creators of Dark got the idea of introducing quantum physics into the series after reading a children's book on it.

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...