As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

Time feels like the most familiar thing in the world, yet it hides one of physics’ hardest questions: why do we only remember ...

Quantum computing has moved from physics labs into boardroom slide decks, promising to crack problems that leave even the ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...