Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test the boundaries of physics ...

A problem that has long been considered impossible to solve and that now, thanks to a breakthrough, can be calculated quickly ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these ...

Optical clocks are highly precise timekeeping devices that measure time by tracking the oscillations of light, as opposed to ...

Quantum versions of Bayes’ rule have been around for decades, but the approach through the minimum change principle had not ...

"If you're using a counter, you have to define zero. You start counting at some point," physicist Marta Berholts from the University of Uppsala in Sweden, who led the team, explained to New Scientist ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Everything gets dark. And your body bumps from side to side as you wait to reach the water. But what if you don’t land on ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

For decades, quantum computing has felt like something out of science fiction — abstract, theoretical, and always “10 years ...

Wei Jia Ong, a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been recognized as the recipient of the ...