Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two pinnacles of 20th-century physics. In their respective fields, ...

For more than a century, the laws of thermodynamics have helped us understand how energy moves, how engines work, and why time seems to flow in one direction. Now, researchers have made a similarly ...

Quantum computers could one day blow boring old classical computers out of the water, but so far their complexity limits their usefulness. Engineers at Stanford have now demonstrated a new relatively ...

Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging effects rooted in quantum mechanics, have the potential of tackling some ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Topological monopoles are a quantum physics phenomenon that can decay into what’s known as “Alice rings.” ...

You probably know what a crystal is. We’ve all seen one, held one in our hands, and even tasted one on our tongue (for instance sodium chloride crystals, also known as “salt”). But what on earth is a ...

Scientists recently created a never-before-seen four-atom molecule — the coldest of its kind ever made. Researchers created the oddball molecule — a strange configuration of sodium-potassium with an ...

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