Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter in which spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons) do not ...

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

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

According to his calculation, Santa would make 2,708 visits per second to reach 234 million households in 24 hours to deliver ...

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Quantum communication saw major progress, including longer-distance demonstrations and systems that operate closer to ...

Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems.

This year, quantum science and computing came up a lot. There have been broad claims that quantum science and engineering ...

For decades, physicists taught that superconductivity and magnetism could not share the same space. One state should destroy ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...