Illustration of cesium atoms entering an ordered state after being chilled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute ...

Imagine if it were possible to pull energy straight out of empty space. Not from fuel, not from sunlight, but from nothing ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

Trions form when three particles, like quarks or electrons, come together. This formation occurs in quantum particles in ...

A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from Standard Model particles far earlier than previous theories had suggested.

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal particles made of thousands of atoms can exist in multiple places at once. Using ...

TU Wien has detected strong quantum entanglement for the first time in a centimeter-sized crystal of a strange metal.

A quiet transformation is unfolding in the way scientists design the materials that power modern technology. From faster ...

Scientists can now sculpt the quantum states of tiny particles to their liking—an odd yet mind-blowing revolution leading to some fascinating inventions. And the latest in the revolution is an odd ...

The force we experience most intimately remains the most mysterious. Physicists understand how vast migrations of particles called photons light up our homes, and how swarms of “gluon” particles hold ...

For the past year, I kept bringing the same story to my editor: quantum computers are on the edge of becoming useful for scientific discovery. Of course, that has always been the goal. The idea of ...