The word "vacuum" may conjure the image of empty space. Maybe you think of a region far outside the solar system without ...

Theoretical physicists at Emory University have discovered a way to use light to detect the "spectral fingerprints" of anyons ...

An unpublished, undated manuscript belonging to Erwin Schrödinger lies in the Austrian Central Library ...

Physicists have discovered a strange new state of quantum matter in which ultracold atoms defy familiar organizational rules, forming a highly excited yet surprisingly orderly configuration called a ...

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1933. (National Digital Archives, Poland/Public Domain) For more than 80 years, a manuscript ...

Eddy Keming Chen is a philosopher of physics at the University of California, San Diego. Was there ever any choice in the Universe being as it is? Albert Einstein could have been wondering about this ...

Although artificial intelligence continues to grab headlines, it isn’t the only advanced technology worth watching.

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Princeton physicists have discovered an abrupt change in quantum behavior while experimenting with a three-atom-thin insulator that can be easily switched into a superconductor. The research promises ...

Scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information. (Nanowerk News) The blue-green lab-grown crystals look like solid rocks, but their ...

As a being whose body contains billions of billions of atoms, I am subject to certain rules. To walk through my front door, I first have to open it. If I throw my jacket onto a chair, it will move in ...