Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in multiple states at once.

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 ...

Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has ...

Jim Al-Khalili on how writers and metaphors translate quantum mechanics into stories.

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

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In Albert Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, the concept of “time dilation” illustrates that the flow of time is ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

Physicists sometimes talk about this changeover as the “quantum-classical transition.” But in fact there’s no reason to think that the large and the small have fundamentally different rules, or that ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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 ...