Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours. When ...

Physicists have developed a way to model quantum systems on everyday computers, making it easier to run complex simulations without relying on supercomputers or artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

The sudden ascent of the AI therapist seems startlingly futuristic, as if it should be unfolding in some later time when the ...

How is it that quantum physics governs the very smallest things in the universe, yet classical, Newtonian rules describe the movements of everything else, from people to planets? In the second of two ...

I think I’m gonna do aerospace engineering,” Senior Kylie Peterson said about her future career. “I also like quantum physics, which is a lot of engineering [as well].” ...

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.

It’s the end of the year, and so one should be compiling ten-best lists.And I turned 65 last week, having spent almost my entire adult life in the climate fight, so it’s one of those moments when I ...

Nine-year-old Preesha Chakraborty has achieved Grand Honors in the Johns Hopkins Talent Search, marking an exceptional ...

This year has been a challenging one for many of us. But as we wrote before it began, the human condition tends toward hope.