Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

The researcher is reported to have left the US to take up a position at the University of Electronic Science and Technology ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that stores ...

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 ...

He’s turned a monkey into a waiter and made sculptures out of bees — for his next trick, Pierre Huyghe is entering 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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter ...