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

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed the extra publicity, though ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

Suppose you’re a CIO or senior application planner, and you need to understand whether you should dig into quantum computing ...

In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...

Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...