Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a method to "purify" photons, an advance that could make optical quantum ...

Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

Researchers at TU Wien have integrated quantum physics with general relativity, revealing significant departures from ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

Unifying gravity and quantum theory remains a significant goal in modern physics. Despite the success in unifying all other fundamental interactions (electromagnetism, strong force and weak force) ...

I have long been fascinated by the strong attraction many people feel toward quantum field theory as a way to explain extraordinary experiences. As a psychiatrist interested in coincidences and the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...