Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though quantum physics says their exact position is fundamentally uncertain. Now, ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow ...

Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, revealing light-like particles with a strikingly high-dimensional character. By ...

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

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

At 15, a Belgian prodigy finishes a quantum physics PhD and turns to AI-driven medicine, raising an unexpected question about ...

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

His explicit goal of ‘creating superhumans’ places him at the center of a debate that usually involves seasoned scientists ...