A new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the ...

Scientists propose a new atomic clock experiment that could reveal whether time itself follows the strange rules of quantum ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it falls, and when and where it will land. But if you were to squeeze that ...

Researchers discovered that atomic rotations inside a crystal can unexpectedly flip direction while still obeying the laws of ...

Quantum technologies promise powerful new kinds of computers, giving scientists new tools to mimic and explore nature at its ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the most promising applications of these ...

Imagine a laptop that never gets hot, a phone that holds its charge for days, or a computer memory chip designed to ...

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal ...

Electron spin may subtly break the symmetry between mirror-image molecules, helping explain why biology chose one molecular ...

Trapped atom experiment shows that quantum motion could power faster and more powerful computers of the future.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." For the past 30 years, scientists have investigated whether the human brain might require quantum ...

Qizhong Liang (PhDPhys’25) squeezes around a worktable tucked into the back corner of a CU physics lab. Spread out in front of him is an intricate arrangement of mirrors, lenses and tubes. But what ...