Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange new state that shouldn’t exist. Scientists have discovered that a liquid does not always behave the way it seems. Even when a material is fully ...

The new research demonstrates for the first time that the wave nature of matter persists even at large scales, using massive ...

At the heart of Boron Carbide Plate exists a material with a résumé that reads like a superhero origin tale. Boron carbide ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

In the early 20th century, the development of quantum mechanics fundamentally changed our understanding of atomic and ...

Pioneering research physicists in Spain, Germany, Italy and Austria tell Computer Weekly about their breakthroughs, their dilemmas, and the immense challenges on the road to a quantum internet ...

A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

Cereal prizes used to be a big deal. In the 1940s and 1950s, kids didn’t just eat breakfast; they studied the box, filled out ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...