Most days, life feels pretty normal—same routines, same places, same people. But every once in a while, the universe throws something so unexpected our way, it jolts us right out of autopilot. That’s ...

Physics works and we know this because it has been tested to extraordinary precision across every scale from subatomic particles to galaxy clusters, and it holds. Which makes the things it cannot ...

According to legend, giants once roamed the Earth. In Homer’s “Odyssey,” Odysseus encounters the Cyclops, the one-eyed son of Poseidon, living in a huge cavern, hungry and angry. He grasps men and ...

The new iteration of China’s Jiuzhang photonic quantum computer prototypes solved the Boson sampling problem much more quickly than the world’s most powerful computer. The computer represents a major ...