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

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

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

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

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

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

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.

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

A century ago, a group of scientists in Europe began developing a theory to explain how the world’s smallest particles interact. Their discoveries underpinned a new branch of physics and laid the ...

Scientists have shown, through probabilistic calculations, that there is indeed, as had been hypothesized, a rule of 'entropy' for the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. This finding could help drive ...

Physicists have long relied on elegant theorems to connect the abstract math of quantum theory with the tangible behavior of ...