Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Take a look around you at everything on Earth. If you were to ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

In the early 1920s, physicists were first working out the mysteries of the quantum Universe. Particles sometimes behaved as waves, with indeterminate positions, momenta, energies, and other properties ...

Principled ion: a minimum amount of energy is required to erase a quantum bit. (Courtesy: iStock/thelightwriter) The minimum amount energy needed to erase a quantum bit (qubit) of information has been ...

Rydberg atoms, atoms whose outermost electrons are highly excited but not ionized, might be just the thing for processing quantum information. These outsized atoms can be sustained for a long time in ...

They knew it was true, but now they've shown it: Scientists have demonstrated that the uncertainty principle, one of the most famous rules of quantum physics, operates in macroscopic objects visible ...

Understanding the structure of correlations within our current description of nature, based on quantum physics, is a fundamental open problem. In particular, one would like to characterize the set of ...

I primarily teach General Chemistry to non-chemistry majors and Writing Intensive Physical Chemistry labs for chemistry majors. 1. How do you use AI in your teaching, and what are your favorite ...

The IonQ Forte quantum system is roughly the same size as a standard data center cabinet. (IonQ Photo) Do full-fledged quantum computers already exist, or will it be a decade before they come into ...