Physicists have started to treat a once-fringe idea with surprising seriousness: that our entire observable universe might be ...

From science-fiction technologies like warp drives and levitation to the search for evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in ...

A stable "exceptional fermionic superfluid," a new quantum phase that intrinsically hosts singularities known as exceptional ...

The Linac Coherent Light Source in California has been firing record-breaking X-ray pulses for years, but now it’s due for a ...

The Majorana 1 quantum computer was hailed as a significant breakthrough by Microsoft, but critics say the company has yet to ...

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An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...

As the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology draws to a close, Margaret Harris revisits some of the year’s ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter in which spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons) do not ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a ...