The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) ...

Setting aside the insane upheaval going on i n US science, this year’s Physics World Live series will give you a sense of ...

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

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

When quantum particles work together, they can produce signals far stronger than any one particle could generate alone. This ...

Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of ...

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

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists-Dr. John Clarke (Professor Emeritus, University of California ...

All three winners of today’s 2025 Nobel Prize in physics are faculty at the University of California. The Nobel Prize committee honored John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the ...

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...