Thinking at cosmic and subatomic scales requires plenty of math—or some visual metaphors.

Time might be even stranger than Einstein imagined. Physicists are now exploring the possibility that a single clock could ...

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Subatomic particles, gravity wells and the beginning of the universe – these are difficult and mysterious concepts that are better understood with storytelling and metaphor. That's exactly theoretical ...

Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to measure how long ultrafast quantum events actually last, without relying ...

Physics - it’s all around us, everywhere, so it’s no wonder why fun facts on physics vary in their intensity. These facts touch upon the surface tension of the gelatin we eat and literal black holes ...

Physicist Paul Davies’s Quantum 2.0: The past, present and future of quantum physics ends on a beautiful note. “To be aware of the quantum world is to glimpse something of the majesty and elegance of ...

Quantum mechanics tells us that a particle can never be perfectly still. But how precisely can it be oriented? A research team at the University of Vienna, together with colleagues at TU Wien and Ulm ...

There’s a lot we don’t understand about quantum systems. But over the past century, physicists have found ways to exploit the many oddities of quantum mechanics to their liking—including a new ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world. This is how countless films and stories describe it, but scientists have always ...

Quantum technology has promising potential to revolutionize how large and complex amounts of information are processed. While already in use primarily in laboratory and research settings globally, ...