Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

God does not play dice with the universe,” Albert Einstein famously declared in 1927, sparking one of the most enduring ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

A South Korean physicist has proposed a theoretical framework that could support the unification of quantum mechanics and the ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

In 1977, an American physicist named John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, ...