During the last couple of days, many readers and colleagues have urged me to write a follow-up to my earlier op-ed "Shaping ...

What do series and parallel circuits have to do with Christmas lights? In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini walks us through the differences between series and parallel circuits and how that ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. For electricity to flow, everything needs to be connected in a big ring. It’s called a circuit. For example, the lights ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students who are studying electrical circuit symbols, electrical charge and current, potential difference, factors that affect resistance and ...

Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation ...

Using a well-controlled quantum system to simulate complex quantum matter is an idea that has been around for 30 years and put into practice in systems of ultracold atoms for more than a decade. Much ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.