Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, scientists wonder: does reality exist on its own . . . or just when you observe the world?

To try and tease apart the stellar origin story, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, ...

PBS doc 'Atomic People' features survivors who talk about what it was like in, Japan, when the atomic bombs dropped.

What if concrete could capture carbon and last 2,000 years? AI just made that idea possible, with atomic-scale simulations ...

Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the ...

A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but ...

The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object ...

In a striking display of quantum physics, a team of researchers has recreated one of science’s most legendary ...

Einstein and Bohr would have never thought that this is possible, to perform such an experiment with single atoms and single photons,” said Wolfgang Ketterle, head of the MIT group whose new ...

For nearly a hundred years, one of the most celebrated minds in science, Albert Einstein, had a lingering quantum thought ...

This quantum balancing act—long debated by Einstein and Bohr—was tested without traditional “spring” components, instead ...

Interestingly, it has definitively resolved a long-standing debate between quantum giants Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr ...