Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

This interaction could help explain both why quantum processes can occur within environments like the brain and why we lose ...

Two landmark quantum experiments have sharpened one of the oldest arguments in modern physics, and the verdict is not kind to ...

Physicists have long treated space and time as the stage on which quantum particles perform, not as actors in the drama ...

In 2022 three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for proving something astonishing: the universe is not locally real. In other words, particles don’t have fixed properties until they are ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

A RECENT GROUNDBREAKING EXPERIMENT in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

The universe is a strange, beautiful place—rich with possibilities and governed by the odd rules of quantum mechanics. One of the most mind-bending ideas from this realm is the many-worlds ...

Try as they might, scientists can’t truly rid a space or an object of its energy. But what “zero-point energy” really means ...