A team of physicists affiliated with multiple institutions in China has measured a pulse of light in 37 dimensions. In their ...

The efficient conversion of solar energy into storable forms of chemical energy is the dream of many engineers. Nature found ...

New research reveals the hidden role quantum mechanics plays in photosynthesis, opening the door for breakthroughs in clean ...

The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

A new study is shining fresh light on how green plants and other photosynthetic organisms transport solar energy so ...

In a first, US researchers have observed fractional excitons, a new class of quantum particles, that were only theoretically ...

For over a century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity have stood as the cornerstones of modern physics, yet ...

In the vast and enigmatic realm of quantum mechanics, where the rules of classical physics give way to probabilities and ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Scientists used antimony atoms to improve quantum computing by making qubits more stable, like a quantum cat, and ...

The quantum revolution is advancing technology, and new experimental equipment from the University of Barcelona helps ...