Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state of its entangled pair regardless of distance. This strange fact flies in ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in ...

An Irish researcher will join a massive hunt for the enigmatic “ripples in space-time” first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916.

Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A ...

Grace Hartigan in Raleigh, NC, Mary Abbott in New York, and Mildred Thompson in Miami bring Abstract Expressionism back to center stage.

A new solid-state laser can make a vast number of precise optical measurements each second, while sweeping across a broad ...

Time travel may be a staple of science fiction, but physics tells a more complicated story, one that’s still unfolding.