A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
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A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
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Our world would be impossible without quantum mechanics — but we still don’t have a narrative of how it works.
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Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
Lasers are all around you. This ubiquitous technology came from our understanding of quantum physics.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
Here’s the case for why science can’t keep ignoring human experience.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there’s no stable “neutronium” at all. But what’s the reason why?
Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
As the Manhattan Project headed for completion, German attempts to build a nuclear weapon had already been dismantled.