Quantum physics often reveals phenomena that defy common sense. A new theory of quantum scarring deepens our understanding of ...

In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...

Understanding what happens inside a material when it is hit by ultrashort light pulses is one of the great challenges of ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 219, No. 1139 (Oct. 7, 1953), pp. 542-555 (14 pages) An account is given of present ideas about the ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe—fundamentally changing from particle-like to ...

Discovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws of ...

For the first time, scientists visualized how electrons behave during a chemical reaction, which could help reduce unwanted ...

The Child and Modern Physics A Swiss psychologist experiments with babies, including his own, and comes to the conclusion that their view of reality has much in common with that of the sophisticated ...