Quantum Physics

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of the latest Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the quantum world

Superprecise timekeepers based on atomic nuclei could be tested as soon as this year

Long ago, the cosmos might have been a black hole factory—and these primordial objects are even weirder than you think

The Large Hadron Collider just produced a never-before-seen particle made of charm and down quarks

One physicist is on a mission to get scientists to look into Louis de Broglie’s pilot wave theory

Physicists have observed the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect in real life

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing

The puzzle of time remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of physics

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking what happens when the observer is part of that world

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle

Hidden beneath the hills of southern China, the JUNO observatory shows promise in solving neutrino mysteries

Black holes and quantum mechanics present a paradox about the preservation of information