Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that evolve with time. What role did this equation play inthe so-called ...

Modern physics suggests distance may emerge from motion, gravity and quantum entanglement, not exist as a basic fact. (CREDIT: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel/STScI, T. Hallas, and A.

Quantum computers are gaining a reputation among chemists and material scientists as promising tools that can tackle problems ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

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.John Clarke, ...