Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly ...

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A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

The simulation of strongly interacting many-body systems is a key objective of quantum physics research, as it can help to ...

Thinking about science and technology in terms of return on investment misses the point. Here’s what kids really need to know ...

The other day I received a letter from a friend. My love for letters is very old. These magical spacetime capsules bring in thoughts of a person written in a different location about a different ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm ...

We know the Earth’s inner core is largely solid, which sets a ceiling on its temperature, and in turn, how much heat dark ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

The discovery honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics takes phenomena observed in the subatomic world—the ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...