With greater control over the quantum realm, physicists are poised to make major leaps in quantum computing, quantum gravity and more.

Astrophysicist Paul Sutter explains Quantum Mechanics - the body of scientific laws that describe the wacky behavior of ...

The classical scientific theories by which we understand the world around us do not hold good at the subatomic level. There, ...

Indeterminacy, as in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, overturns the old, classical idea of a perfectly predictable, ...

A new theoretical proposal suggests scrapping nearly everything we think we know about gravity in order to understand the ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two ...

MIT physicists have taken the first-ever direct images of individual atoms interacting freely in space. Their findings, ...

A bold new quantum theory of gravity may finally bridge the long-standing rift between Einstein’s general relativity and quantum field theory. This potential "Theory of Everything" could answer some o ...

It might seem unfathomable, but that mind-boggling max age for the universe is far lower than the previously predicted 10 ...

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity ...