Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are ...

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...

What color is an atom? Since atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, we can’t see them directly - but they still interact with light in ways that create color. Discover how atomic ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob ...

A ‘quantum telephone’ connecting atomic nuclei could make practical quantum computers easier to build and use.

Imagine a knot so small that it can’t be seen with the naked eye. Then think even smaller. Chemists have tied together just 54 atoms to form the smallest molecular knot yet. Described January 2 in ...

Modeling the quantum world is far from easy. The physical peculiarities of quantum mechanics are far removed from the world we inhabit, and there are systems whose complexity is even beyond ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

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