By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...

Delve into the detail of atomic physics. As the basic units of matter, atoms are the building blocks for everything in the universe. Once thought to be indivisible, we now know they can indeed be ...

According to quantum mechanics, ordinary matter, not just light, can exhibit wave properties. The wave nature of matter is described by a 'quantum superposition' state, where physical states like posi ...

Experiments reveal that metallic nanoparticles thousands of atoms wide can exist in quantum superposition, providing a ...

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

In a quiet corner of low-temperature physics, researchers have stumbled on a phase of matter that seems to break one of the ...

Quantum theory has long treated time as a silent backdrop, a parameter that never jitters even as particles flicker in and ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...