Watching the calming blue waves roll in as the sun shone on the dramatic skyscrapers in the background, he never thought anything could spoil the moment. That was, until he cracked open a drink. What ...

As the government shutdown threatens to stretch into a second week, House Speaker Mike Johnson told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that Democrats are refusing to negotiate on the "bootstrap ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

The new approach uses a purely optical technique called stimulated two-photon excitation to generate streams of photons in different polarization states directly from a quantum dot without requiring ...

Researchers have unveiled a new quantum material that could make quantum computers much more stable by using magnetism to protect delicate qubits from environmental disturbances. Unlike traditional ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by ...

Hello and welcome back to Plugged In. We at Fast Company are uncommonly fond of the year 1995. After all, it’s the year we officially began ongoing publication, after putting out a test issue in 1993.