If you think “quantum physics" sounds like something that only happens deep inside a lab- relax. Three scientists won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that the strange rules of the quantum world can play out in something you can literally hold in your hand.

What Exactly Happened?

Quantum mechanics is the rulebook for how the tiniest particles in the universe behave. In that world, things don’t follow logic: particles can be in two places at once, slip through barriers or appear out of nowhere. For decades, scientists believed those tricks only worked for atoms and electrons- not for bigger, human-made objects. Then came John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, who built a small electric circuit out of superconductors and showed that it could behave like a single, g

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