More often than not, anything “quantum” makes you think of stuff on the tiniest of scales. But in reality, quantum phenomena ...

Astronomers studying one of the most magnetic objects in the universe have found some of the strongest evidence yet for a ...

Researchers from Würzburg have experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado for the first time by refining an established method. In the quantum semimetal tantalum arsenide (TaAs), electrons in ...

Vacuum birefringence -- the QED prediction that extreme magnetic fields turn empty space into an optical filter -- has its ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...

An international team of researchers has succeeded in producing atomic quantum gas mixtures with an unprecedented particle ...

Our understanding of the internal structure of protons is largely based on classical physics, but data compiled from ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of recent breakthroughs points to a future in which exotic states of matter, ...

Fay Dowker is a theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, UK, and at the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada. Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for ...

If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft of air against your cheek – that’s about it. No epiphany. No major sign that ...

The Qube research satellite to test quantum key distribution launched Aug. 16 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare. Credit: Zentrum Fur Telematik Credit: Center for Telematics, Wurzburg Quantum Key ...

In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic ...