When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, ...

Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results ...

Irish physicist William Rowan Hamilton’s pioneering work contained hints of the enigmatic wave–particle duality that governs the universe.

A survey of Scientific American’s century of quantum coverage helps explain the enduring popularity of strange physics ...

Time crystals are physical systems that generate a special kind of order in time. Now scientists in Vienna discovered a new ...

IIT Guwahati has officially released the GATE 2026 syllabus and exam pattern for all subjects on its website. About 85% of ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed the extra publicity, though ...

An international team of researchers has identified a quantum counterpart to Bayes’ rule. The likelihood you assign to an ...

Elizabeth Pasatembou and Dimitrie Cielecki discuss their experience of doing science policy engagement during their PhDs ...

Quantum mechanics is our most successful physical theory. Created to account for atomic phenomena, it has a vast range of applications extending well beyond the atomic realm, from predicting the ...

The researchers extended existing theoretical models to account for quantum fluctuations and applied these models to flowing condensates, discovering stable density and velocity fluctuation patterns ...