Jim Al-Khalili on how writers and metaphors translate quantum mechanics into stories.

According to our current understanding of the universe, quarks are fundamental, point-like particles: basic building blocks ...

Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom. A ...

If you've been in the market for a new hair dryer, you've likely seen advertising for ionic ones. Some claim to produce ...

Okay, so quantum tunneling. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, right? Like a character phasing through a wall.

For the first time, physicists have entangled two atoms while they were in motion and used the result to run one of quantum ...

Our team of physicists studies whether an even better kind of clock could one day be built from the atomic nucleus. Today’s ...

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the momentum of massive particles. The result, decades ...

Theoretical and experimental work described in Nature Physics expands the repertoire of exotic phases of matter.

A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts were linked. That is the ...

Two extremely precise experiments agree with a previously shocking measurement of just how big the proton is, which may help ...