In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

A problem that has long been considered impossible to solve and that now, thanks to a breakthrough, can be calculated quickly ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis demonstrated quantum tunneling in an electrical circuit, with implications for the next generation of quantum technology.

Using a technique called Quantum Echoes, Google says its latest chip has delivered results that outperform traditional ...

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

Although researchers can’t detect these virtual particles, as tools of calculation they predict many subtle effects ... they also resolve a long-standing problem in physics: How does a force act ...

But perhaps this was because the academy’s announcement had committed the journalist’s faux pas of burying the lead: the science led to the invention of a crucial part of the technology for making ...

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

The pH, or the acidity or alkalinity of an environment, has long been known to affect how efficiently catalysts drive key ...

When the Social Security COLA is announced later this month, here's what to expect.