For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

'No understanding of or interest in modern physics': Einstein (pictured) was criticised by Oppenheimer - Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Viewers of Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-hoovering ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Hardy's paradox, created in 1992, hinted at a scenario haunting the edges of quantum physics. It presented a thought ...

The pioneer of quantum computing talks about how Albert Einstein would have reacted to his experiments, the hype around the ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Now, a newly proposed theory attempts to unify Einstein’s theory of gravity with quantum mechanics – and importantly, outlines a way to test it experimentally. Over the past century or so, quantum ...

When two particles are entangled, the state of one is tied to the state of the other. Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo Library via Getty Images The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics recognized three ...

The image depicts an experiment in which heavy particles(illustrated as the moon), cause an interference pattern (a quantum effect), while also bendingspacetime. The ...

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...