Photonics integrates quantum mechanics with light, fostering innovations in quantum computing, secure data transfer, and high-resolution imaging techniques.

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic ...

Ask a bunch of physicists to explain a quantum experiment and you’re unlikely to get the same description twice. Everyone agrees that the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics is peerless at ...

The concept of time travel, filled with magic, has long danced on the boundary between science and science fiction. From ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

Modeling the quantum world is far from easy. The physical peculiarities of quantum mechanics are far removed from the world we inhabit, and there are systems whose complexity is even beyond ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

Join Curt Jaimungal talks to Harvard physicist Jacob Barandes and Scott Aaronson. Jacob Barandes claims quantum mechanics can be reformulated without wave functions. Barandes has a new formulation of ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity. Plus, ...