A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose consciousness under anesthesia.

A recent study proposes that gravity, the force shaping galaxies and anchoring planets, might not be fundamental after all.

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

The seeds of quantum theory were sown by Albert Einstein and others as early as 1905. But the theory came together properly 100 years ago in 1925 – and has exerted its influence ever since, as this ...

Google’s latest Doodle celebrates World Quantum Day. Quantum computers are one of Google’s big research projects, but the fundamentals can be hard to communicate. For today’s Doodle, Google uses a ...

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...

Amid some scepticism, many say the machines can now achieve results beyond the capability of traditional computers ...

The big thinkers at Aperture explain quantum mechanics and the uncertainties at the heart of physics.