What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has ...

Recent discoveries in the realm of physics have pointed to the possibility of time anomalies that challenge our current ...

Textbooks give strange, imprecise explanations of where things happen in quantum mechanics. Consistency with gravity needs a fresh approach.

A new theory suggests that the unification between quantum physics and general relativity has eluded scientists for 100 years because huge "fluctuations" in space and time mean that gravity won't ...

Quantum mechanics tells us that the forces of nature come in discrete, tiny chunks. Gravity, the bending of space-time, is a force. So is space-time quantized as well?

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

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Hold your horses, time reversal in quantum computers is unlikely to lead to a time machine, but it might help make quantum computers more precise in the future.

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...

Scientists have created a 'time-crystal' a two-body system in an experiment that seems to bend the laws of physics. A 'two-level system' is a basic building block of a quantum computer. Time ...

In the weird world of quantum physics, it's not unusual for particles to tunnel through barriers that under normal circumstances they shouldn't be able to pass through. While this process, called ...