Scientists may have finally unlocked the unusual role quasiparticles known as "anyons" play in a pair of quantum experiments ...

Later work by others built on this, showing that these energy levels are a fundamental part of how the universe works at the smallest scales. It was a huge step in moving away from older ideas about ...

Diamonds are no longer just prized for their brilliance. In cutting-edge physics labs, synthetic diamonds with carefully ...

Quantum tunnelling is a strange effect that physicists first theorised almost a century ago. Imagine a man trying to climb a mountain, Eleanor Crane, a quantum physicist at King's College London, told ...

Quantum spin liquids are exotic states of matter in which spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons) do not ...

Every year, Santa Claus races around the globe in a matter of hours to bring presents to children all over the world.

Zulekha Samiullah and Hugh Barrett talk about the highlights from this year’s Quantum Carousel, a variety show for quantum ...

Chinese scientists have proposed a new theoretical explanation for one of the oldest mysteries of physics — why time only ...

Discover the iPod Planck, the smallest iPod, and its links to quantum gravity effects and the Holographic Principle. clearly they are moving toward the "ipod Planck", which would be the smallest ipod ...