Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

A theoretical study suggests that gravity could have quantum effects without itself being a quantum theory. Other researchers ...

The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

In a groundbreaking achievement, scientists have successfully captured the precise shape of a single photon, marking a ...

Sorta sparked by this comment someone made to me but it's similar to what other people have told me before: I was listening to a lecture on quantum electrodynamics and it helped me conceptualize the ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether in a physics class, in the lab, or in popular science writing, is left ...