What does it feel like to ‘touch’ quantum physics? These scientists gave it a shot
Physicists made the intangible almost tangible.
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Scientists devised a quantum watch that measures time in a fundamentally different way
A new time-keeping quantum device that requires no "time zero" reference.
Ultracold atoms spun on a string form quantum tornadoes
Physicists call it 'quantum weather'.
Hoverboards are now real — and the science behind them is dope
Hoverboards like the ones in Back to the Future II now exist for real. Sort of.
Physicists make 2-D supersolid that flows without friction, a world first
It's like an ice cube flowing on water without friction.
What are Gravitational Waves?
Not only do gravitational waves represent the ultimate confirmation of the theory of General Relativity, they will provide us with ...
What is the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
The Standard Model is our best description of the subatomic world. Join ZME for a stroll through the particle zoo.
Time Travel Without the Paradoxes
Join ZME Science in its carefully non-copyright infringing time machine with your sidekick ‘Marty’ to see if time travel paradoxes ...
Quantum Teleportation: Separating Science Fact from Science Fiction
Quantum teleportation may take its name from its fictional counterpart, but aside from that, it shares few commonalities. Despite this, ...
A Journey through Multiverses, Hidden Dimensions, and Many Worlds
The alternate world, universe, or dimension is a long-standing element of pop-culture. But these concepts, often conflated, have their roots ...
Certainly Uncertain: What’s Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is more than a mathematical quirk, a handy guiding principle, or the inspiration for some really nerdy ...
What is Superposition? Schrödinger’s Cat Experiment Explained
The tale of physics’ most famous cat is one that is familiar to many, but what is the inside story ...
Physicists solved decades-old puzzle with huge implications for quantum computers
A happy accident lead to a breakthrough that may prove to be revolutionary in physics and beyond.
Side stepping Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle isn’t easy
The uncertainty principle provides a constant hindrance to the sensitivity of equipment such as LIGO's interferometer and new research shows, ...
Super-Superposition: 2,000 atoms in ‘two places at once’
A new record for the most atoms placed in a quantum superposition simultaneously has been set by researchers - pushing the boundary ...
Quantum satellite investigates the gap between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity
An international team of scientists has attempted to test the effects of gravity on quantum entanglement using the Micius Quantum ...
Physicists are a step closer to a theory of quantum gravity
A new study outlines the conditions that couple quantum gravity and low-energy physics.
Physicists measure quantum entanglement in chemical reactions
The discovery has implications for the improvement of technologies like solar energy systems.
‘Quantum compass’ can locate objects without GPS
The device is completely self-contained, being able to determine the position of an object on the globe with no external ...
Physicists may have solved ‘chicken or the egg’ paradox — both can come first
Of course it had to be weird and confusing.
Scientists demonstrate quantum entanglement with objects big enough to see
'Spooky action at a distance' is approaching the human scale.
Quantum technology of spinning black holes
Are black holes trying to tell us something?
Musk’s argument that we live in a simulation doesn’t hold water, quantum physicists say
The blue pill or the red pill?
China launches first quantum satellite making its communications unhackable
Teleporting quantum states might the future of communications, and China is leading the way.
Water squeezed in a new state: not liquid, nor solid or gas. Just pure quantum weirdness
Physicists have crammed water inside extremely small cracks about ten-billionth of a metre and found the molecules entered a never ...
Gamers help solve quantum physics problem where A.I. failed
After an A.I. beat the human champion at Go, a game almost infinitely more complex than chess, some might feel ...
Book review: ‘The Quantum Moment’
How the quantum moment "overturned basic beliefs about space and time, causality and reality, and exposed as mistaken many fundamental ...
Quantum physics used to make virtually uncrackable authentication system
Security experts have devised a novel authentication system that exploits quantum effects to make fraud-proof credit cards or IDs. Called Quantum-Secure ...
Measuring particle momentum without breaking the uncertainty principle
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle makes quantum physics nasty. There's no reason why we can't get all along, though. A novel technique ...
Quantum theory takes out singularity, suggests black holes are wormholes
Black holes are the single most interesting and puzzling objects in our Universe - that we know of. But as ...
Scientists image an atom’s shadow for the first time
With implications for everything from quantum computing to microbiology, scientists have for the first time imaged the shadow of an ...
Physicists quantum teleport photons over 143 kilometers
Last May, European scientists managed to teleport photons using quantum phenomena over a distance of 143 kilometers, across two Canary ...
Scientists devise qubits in a semiconductor for the first time
Hailed as yet another big step towards devising working quantum computers, scientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have successfully managed to generate quantum ...
Scientists cool semiconductor with laser light
By harnessing the science of both quantum and nano physics, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute have come up with ...
Solar paint promises to turn any surface into a solar cell
Researchers have successfully managed to create a "solar paint" made out of quantum dots, which exhibits similar properties to multifilm solar ...
The age of nano-electronics: scientists develop one of the world’s smallest circuits
A team of researchers from led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, ...
Truly random numbers might be generated with quantum physics
Does flicking a dice really render a random face? The answer would be no. The dice is governed by large-scale ...
Watch Quantum Levitation in action [AMAZING!]
What you just saw in the video above is a perfect demonstration of the quantum levitation effect, through a fairly ...