When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

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A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now bridges ...

Denison University professor Steve Olmschenk shares his lifelong passion for science, quantum physics and teaching students.

In quantum mechanics, particles do not behave like everyday objects. Instead of existing in one clearly defined state, they ...

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Researchers have simulated "false vacuum decay," a theoretical quantum process often called the "bubble of doom" that could ...

A team at Japan’s RIKEN research institute has figured out how to flip a quantum switch that controls the flow of phonons, ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...