Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

In a study, physicists now observed a class of quantum particles called fractional excitons, which behave in unexpected ways and could significantly expand scientists' understanding of the quantum ...

Quantum networks, systems consisting of connected quantum computers, quantum sensors or other quantum devices, hold the ...

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 ...

Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue.

Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems far beyond the reach of today's fastest supercomputers. But today's machines are notoriously fragile. The quantum bits, or "qubits," that store ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. John Clarke, ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...

Since at least 2016, a rumor has circulated online that "a speck of dust is halfway between the size of" an atom and Earth. However, Wendy Taylor, a particle physicist and professor of physics and ...