Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Quantum walks sound abstract, but they sit at the center of a very concrete race: who will harness quantum mechanics to solve problems that overwhelm today’s most powerful supercomputers. Instead of ...