You can say the universe has a split personality. Or better said, our physical models of the universe are the ones fractured.

Quantum physicists at ANU have observed atoms entangled in motion. "It's really weird for us to think that this is how the ...

Quantum mechanics tells us that a particle can never be perfectly still. But how precisely can it be oriented? A research ...

For years, progress in artificial intelligence has followed a simple rule: make it bigger ...

The results are just what theory predicts, but when the theory clashes as strongly with everyday experience as this, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since the prize announcement, cheers and excitement have surrounded the home institutions of these laureates in Berkeley, Santa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. have made a groundbreaking achievement after they ...

Scientists show helium atoms can exist in two places at once, preserving quantum behavior even as they fall under gravity.

Physicists at the Australian National University have observed pairs of atoms existing in two places at once for the first ...

A new quantum system called giant superatoms could protect quantum information and enable entanglement between multiple ...

Olival Freire Jr is a professor of physics and the history of physics at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Since the prize announcement, cheers and excitement have surrounded the home ...