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

Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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

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

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

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

Learning how a physical system behaves usually means repeating measurements and using statistics to uncover patterns. That ...

The encryption protecting billions of dollars, which experts once called unbreakable, no longer works. Hackers don’t need passwords. They don’t brute-force keys. They simply walk through digital ...

We’ve had quantum science on our minds all year long, courtesy of 2025 being UNESCO’s International Year of Quantum Science ...