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

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

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

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

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

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

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

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

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

STOCKHOLM — U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action,” paving the way for the ...

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...