Quantum mechanics powers lasers and precision measurements. A century-spanning perspective examines those successes and the ...

A theoretical study suggests that interactions between quantum fields and their surroundings could make it harder for those ...

The universe may be trapped in its own comfort zone, and a researcher in the College of Engineering and Computer Science has ...

Physicists have many delightful theories about how our universe might end, including one that suggests it isn’t in its most stable state. If it transitions to that state, we could all be squelched ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows matter rushing forward from a singularity at the dawn of time during the Big Bang. | Credit: Robert Lea ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Viaframe/Stone/Getty Images) Although our Universe appears to be stable, it might just be in a temporary state of false calm that ...

Teleology is the idea that some processes in nature are directed toward a goal or an end. Today, it is commonly asserted that teleology is a remnant of antiquated ways of thinking about causation, and ...

Scientists led by Hanns-Christoph Nägerl have observed anyons -- quasiparticles that differ from the familiar fermions and bosons -- in a one-dimensional quantum system for the first time. The results ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports simulates particle creation in an expanding universe using IBM quantum computers, demonstrating the digital quantum simulation of quantum field theory for ...

A cartoon of a black hole and a naked singularity. Either of them can be the end product of a gravita tional collapse of matter, depending on initial and other conditions. For a black hole, nothing, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The universe may have been born out of nothing, with an "anti-universe" ...