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 ...

In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Physicists have coaxed particles of light into undergoing opposite transformations simultaneously, like a human turning into a werewolf as the werewolf turns into a human. In carefully engineered ...

A new breakthrough may help scientists solve some of the mysteries of the quantum realm. For the first time, physicists have been able to measure the geometrical 'shape' a lone electron adopts as it ...

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

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.

The true danger isn't just that quantum computers will read our emails. It's that they'll fundamentally change what's ...

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