Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...

The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

His explicit goal of ‘creating superhumans’ places him at the center of a debate that usually involves seasoned scientists ...