Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

Generally speaking, black holes are regions of spacetime where matter is compressed into a tiny space. Dark matter, meanwhile ...

Cyclic cosmology, or the big bounce, is the idea that the universe will eventually crunch back together and then go through ...

What if the mysterious substance holding galaxies together is made of leftovers from a universe that existed before our own? That is the central question posed by physicists Carlo Rovelli and ...

Stephen Hawking's theory of black hole evaporation clashes with the laws of quantum mechanics. A new paper finds a way around ...

A new model suggests the universe could tear itself apart as expansion accelerates, with quantum effects potentially driving ...

New research suggests that relic black holes from before the big bang may still shape galaxies today. These black holes could ...

Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the momentum of massive particles. The result, decades in the making, could help physicists probe the relationship between quantum ...

Physicists in China have simulated the effect of "false vacuum decay": a phenomenon believed to play out constantly in the ...

Scientists confirm atom momentum entanglement for the first time, a mass-based quantum leap that could bring gravity and ...

The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level ...