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, ...

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

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

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

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

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...

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

Scientists teleport quantum calculations between computers, paving the way for distributed quantum computing and a future quantum internet.

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

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

Here are three discoveries from quantum physics that quietly changed how we understand the power of the mind, not in mystical language, but in ways that still make scientists uncomfortable. Scroll ...

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 ...