The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

Note: This video is designed to help the teacher better understand the lesson and is NOT intended to be shown to students. It includes observations and conclusions that students are meant to make on ...

For example, the atomic number of chlorine is 17. Every chlorine atom has 17 protons and 17 electrons. It has 17 positive charges and 17 negative charges, meaning that it is neutral overall. Atoms of ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

The neutral atom array architecture for quantum computing has been rapidly advancing over the last several years, and a ...

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Researchers kept more than 6,000 qubits coherent while operating with 99.98% accuracy. Here's why that matters for quantum ...

When scientists at Caltech revealed that they had assembled the world’s largest neutral-atom quantum computer, the ...

What makes the journey fascinating is how each level of zoom reveals new rules. Biology gives way to chemistry, chemistry gives way to physics, and eventually physics reaches a quantum realm full of ...

Researchers find that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an excited atomic state while passing through a cloud ...