In a striking display of quantum physics, a team of researchers has recreated one of science’s most legendary experiments—with unprecedented precision. At MIT, scientists cooled thousands of atoms to ...

Jim Baggott is a science writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is co-author with John Heilbron of Quantum Drama. Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory, on which ...

LITLINGTON, England, May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking research article supported by Cheyney Design and Development, a leader in x-ray inspection and imaging technologies, has unveiled a ...

Although Einstein's work on photons found broader acceptance, eventually leading to his Nobel Prize in Physics, Einstein was not fully convinced. He wrote in a 1951 letter, "All the 50 years of ...

Physics is not just a quest to predict how things work. It’s an attempt to understand the true nature of reality. For thousands of years, the world’s physicists and astronomers tried to understand how ...

Ever since Max Planck introduced the idea of the quantum to the world, physicists have argued about whether reality is more like sand or water. Planck’s famous 1900 discovery that energy is grainy — ...

Photons carry the electromagnetic force, and act as both particles and waves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Photons are ...