A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and ...

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The work of American artist Stanley Casselman lives at the intersection of art and science, translating the elements of reality—from the vastness of the cosmos to the infinitesimal building blocks of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: You may feel like you’re constantly shaping your reality—but it could actually be the other way around. According to theory, when we interact with ...

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 ...

Some materials are so strange they seem to break the rules of reality itself. From ultra-thin graphene stronger than steel to theoretical matter that could bend space and time, scientists are pushing ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...