Physicists seem to be obsessed with cats. James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electrodynamics, studied falling feline s to investigate how they turned as they fell. Many physics teachers have used a ...

A new version of a strange experiment in which a particle’s properties are separated from its body or mass, called the quantum Cheshire Cat, has physicists arguing over whether these disembodied ...

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STOCKHOLM -- Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots -- tiny particles just a few nanometers in diameter that can release very bright colored light ...

A new quantum computing protocol may be able to augment a standard technique for understanding molecules in chemistry, ...

For the first time, researchers have observed "quantum superchemistry" in the lab. Long theorized but never before seen, quantum superchemistry is a phenomenon in which atoms or molecules in the same ...

Three chemists who predicted and were first to make quantum dots — nanoscale crystals that interact with light in unusual ways — have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Moungi Bawendi at the ...