The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

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Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

For a century, the Schrödinger equation has been the bedrock of quantum mechanics, successfully predicting how matter behaves as a wave. Yet, physics has lacked a fundamental explanation for why ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness ...

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties ...

On 9 July 1925, Heisenberg sent a paper titled ‘Quantum-theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations’ to Max Born, whom he was assisting at that time, and Born sent the paper to ...

The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may be hiding in a quantum recipe to cook up black holes. That's the suggestion of new research that adds quantum corrections to ...

Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time ...

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.