Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

We often marvel at the genius of Albert Einstein, a physicist who revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Yet, even ...

The findings resolve a long-standing problem in fundamental physics. Scientists at Hiroshima University have created a practical and highly sensitive method for detecting the Unruh effect, a ...

In the 1920s, Albert Einstein and one of his former students developed a way to keep food cold using heat. It was designed to ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

A decade ago, scientists first detected ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, from the collision ...

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

A hidden quantum geometry that distorts electron paths has finally been observed in real materials. This “quantum metric,” ...

An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an ...

When we observe the world at our scale, everything seems to obey predictable laws, those of classical physics. But when ...