New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

Light is fast, but travels in long wavelengths and interacts weakly with itself. The particles that make up matter are tiny ...

Superconductors (materials that conduct electricity without resistance) have fascinated physicists for more than a century.

In a remarkable leap for quantum physics, researchers in Japan have uncovered how weak magnetic fields can reverse tiny ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics.

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

It is the 119th time the prize has been awarded. Last year, artificial intelligence pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey ...

The discovery could significantly reduce the production costs of fuels, chemicals, and materials. A research team from the ...

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental demonstration of quantum effects.