A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize ...

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

On the International Space Station, a cube holding a diamond-based sensor revealed the potential for quantum magnetometers.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key ...

The device, described in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, generates phonons—a quantum mechanical description of ...

The universe looks like it is mostly empty space. Remove the stars, planets, dust, and gas, and what remains is nothing at all. Physics tells a stranger story. The vacuum is not truly empty. It is ...

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...

Like ghosts in the void, virtual particles can materialize from (almost) nothing.

Particles that don’t seem to be entangled have earned a high score on a famous test of entanglement. The experiment could offer a fresh look at what makes the quantum world so strange. Nearly 60 years ...

Quantum computers are beginning to become powerful tools for studying some of the most fundamental forces in the universe – and some of the trickiest to understand. Two experiments have used them to ...