Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Euro 7 forces carmakers into an engineering arms race: brake dust traps, tire wear limits, and cyber-locked ECUs murdering ...

Space is a lot bigger and weirder than most of us realise, and even the smartest people in the world are still basically ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Current theories suggest that W and Z bosons acquire mass from interactions with the Higgs scalar field, but a new study suggests that the higher dimensional structure of spacetime could be the actual ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Exotic hypothetical particles known as axions could potentially be produced inside a nuclear reactor, something The Big Bang ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...