Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never stops — even at absolute zero.

In our lived reality, we perceive time as a linear progression moving in one direction. While today gives way to tomorrow and the day after and so on in the real world, new findings show that time can ...

New technologies are enabling scientists to tackle previously elusive physics problems. The macroscopic realm, which consists of everything from falling balls to orbiting planets, can be explained by ...

Where do you see patterns in chaos? It has been proven, in the incredibly tiny quantum realm, by an international team co-led by UC Santa Cruz physicist Jairo Velasco, Jr. In a new paper published on ...

For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...

A new breakthrough may help scientists solve some of the mysteries of the quantum realm. For the first time, physicists have been able to measure the geometrical 'shape' a lone electron adopts as it ...

Physics simulations using classical mechanics is something that’s fairly easily done on regular consumer hardware, with ...

Breaking the time asymmetry remains a fundamental yet tantalizing scientific challenge. At the macroscopic level the quest has so far turned out to be fruitless, but on the other hand in the subatomic ...

Quantum communication saw major progress, including longer-distance demonstrations and systems that operate closer to ...

By inserting tiny imperfections into the stones, scientists open up possibilities in computing, encryption and sensors ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...