One of the major events of 20th-century physics has been the founding and subsequent evolution of quantum mechanics. First, a strange curiosity that went strongly against intuition and caused decades ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

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Extremely cold atoms have been nudged to self-magnify their quantum states so they can be imaged in unprecedented detail. This could help researchers better understand what quantum particles do in odd ...