Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, revealing light-like particles with a strikingly high-dimensional character. By ...

The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...

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

Quantum mechanics has always carried a quiet tension. At its core, the theory allows particles to exist in many states at ...

The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...