At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

"We have long treated the Planck scale like a blurry limit," said Kulkarni. "But if you treat space as an information storage medium, geometry dictates a specific packing efficiency. The universe has ...

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one, space; ...

A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by thousands of atoms. Quantum physics defines particles in terms of waves, ...

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black ...

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 ...

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly incompatible views of how exotic particles behave inside quantum matter. In some ...

The second reason is simple: location, location, location! The millisecond pulsar appears to be near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Sagittarius A* weighs ...

A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems move in repeating ...

The aurora borealis has been the ultimate atmospheric tease for ages. We knew what ...

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

Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for a theory that half of the people might not even have heard of. His Theory of Relativity, though world-changing, was not cited. Yet while delivering his ...