The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman once famously remarked that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” given the ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to be folded neatly into the quantum rules that govern the rest of nature. Now a convergence of bold ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

What if your conscious experiences were not just the chatter of neurons, but were connected to the hum of the universe? In a ...

Researchers demonstrate that by shaping the spatial and temporal structure of photons, they can engineer customized quantum ...

The private communication of individuals and organizations is protected online by cryptography. Cryptography protects our information as it travels over and is stored on the internet—whether making a ...

A researcher at the Department of Physics at Tohoku University has uncovered a surprising quantum phenomenon hidden inside ...

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Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of ...

A new study from Oxford shows quantum clocks may not be as energy efficient as once thought, but only when we look at them.

A quiet shift is taking place in physics labs that could one day reshape how you send a message, store data, or protect ...