By establishing a larger principle for how things shatter, certain energy-intensive tasks could gain an advantage.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum ...

Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

Columbia professors contributed to new research that seeks to understand an anomaly that has puzzled particle physics for ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...

Scientists announced on Wednesday that they have found no evidence for the hypothetical “sterile neutrino,” an extra version ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

Life expectancy has climbed steadily over the past century, but few people talk seriously about eliminating death itself. Now ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...