A rewarding book that offers a cogent look at the science’s history and the second quantum revolution that’s under way ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

Quantum mechanics, one of the most successful theories in all of science, says some strange things about the fundamental nature of the world. For all practical purposes, physicists can and do ignore ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Is the electron a wave or a particle? Are the orbits of electrons in atoms similar to planetary orbits? What is the nature of light? Such were the questions that physicists were struggling with in the ...

The pioneer of quantum computing talks about how Albert Einstein would have reacted to his experiments, the hype around the ...

According to his calculation, Santa would make 2,708 visits per second to reach 234 million households in 24 hours to deliver ...

In the 1920s, when quantum mechanics was young, physicists Jane Dewey and Laura Chalk performed some of the first experimental tests of the theory, based on a phenomenon called the Stark effect. Later ...

Even young babies can grasp that what they do with their heads, hands, and feet can produce effects that, upon repetition, become predictable to them. As they grow, babies’ experience of personal ...