For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the strange behavior of atoms and photons. Physicists have long suspected that ...

Physicist Sean Carroll takes on back holes, Schrödinger’s cat, and other big physics concepts that had our audience wondering.

Governments and tech companies continue to pour money into quantum technology in the hopes of building a supercomputer that can work at speeds we can't yet fathom to solve big problems.

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...