This year’s Nobel Prize in physics has gone to three scientists who showed that it was possible even for large systems, made ...

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That's normal physics. But in the quantum world, a tiny particle might sometimes pass straight through the wall, as if the ...

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

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

A water-powered nanogenerator uses droplet formation to convert flowing water into electricity, providing a clean, ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: three shiny new medals, 11 million Swedish kronor (to be divided ...

This year's Nobel Prizes have awarded discoveries and achievements that have benefitted humankind in a myriad of ways. Who ...

Every few weeks, it seems, yet another lab proclaims yet another breakthrough in the race to perfect solid-state batteries: ...

Scientists from Monash University in Australia have developed a groundbreaking chip that uses liquid, not electricity, to ...

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn ...