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

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

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

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

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For a century, quantum theory has passed every experimental test, but physicists can’t agree on how to use it to paint a ...

For decades, quantum physics and general relativity have stood as two powerful but separate theories. Quantum physics explains the behavior of tiny particles like atoms and photons.

Scientists at the University of Surrey found that at the quantum level time is equally likely to move forward or backward; there is no past or future.

Scientists in Japan have uncovered a strange new behavior in “heavy” electrons — particles that act as if they carry far more ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Quantum researchers have deployed a new algorithm to manage noise in qubits in real time. The method can be applied to a wide ...