As the nucleus splits, it also releases its neutrons. These neutrons bounce around at incredible speeds until some eventually ...

One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ...

How Physicists' Clever Bookkeeping Trick Could Underlie Reality. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ha ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

NASA's IMAP mission aims to map the heliosphere, study solar wind, and improve space weather forecasting for Earth's ...

Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the ...

By using a quantum sensor to measure an atom’s position and motion simultaneously, which seemed contradictory to uncertainty ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That’s normal physics. But in the quantum world, a tiny particle might sometimes pass straight through the wall, as if the ...