A new interactive web application allows for a tangible understanding of abstract concepts of quantum game theory. The Kobe ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

While a quantum computer could factor a 2048-bit RSA key in less than a week with fewer than a million qubits, there are ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Kobe University's proof-of-concept for quantum game theory allows users to explore how their strategies interfere.

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

Quantum researchers in the twenty-first century are part of an international network that requires a great deal of ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...

Precise metrology forms a fundamental basis for advanced science and technology, including bioimaging, semiconductor defects ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...