For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

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A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around ...

Stephen Hawking was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author whose study and work on black holes and the universe made him one of the most recognisable figures in the field of science.

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum ...

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

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...