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Quantum mechanics incorporates some very non-intuitive properties of matter. Quantum superposition, for example, allows an atom to be simultaneously in two different states with its spin axis pointed both up and down, or...

What kinds of 'particles' are allowed by nature? The answer lies in the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes the microscopic world.

If invisibility cloaks and other gee-whiz apps are ever to move from science fiction to science fact, we'll need to know more about how these weird metamaterials actually work. Michigan Tech researcher Elena Semouchkina ...

Around the world, scientists and non-scientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day. This year, October 31 was more than just Halloween. It was also the first global celebration of Dark Matter Day. I...

A major challenge facing the development of fusion energy is maintaining the ultra-hot plasma that fuels fusion reactions in a steady state, or sustainable, form using superconducting magnetic coils to avoid the tremendo...

Around 50 million people worldwide are thought to have Alzheimer's disease. And with rapidly aging populations in many countries, the number of sufferers is steadily rising. We know that Alzheimer's is caused by problems...

Cells from people with chronic fatigue syndrome fail to meet even modest energy demands, adding to evidence that the disease is physiological, not psychological

Scientists have uncovered thousands of well-preserved paintings in caves on Mona Island that date to before Europeans arrived on the island.

Outlandish threats in the standoff between North Korea and Donald Trump are bluffs whose main aim is to bolster support at home, says game theorist Petros Sekeris

Properties, sources and uses of the element barium.

We've seen how sleep deprivation disrupts the way neurons communicate with each other, and it may explain why a bad night's sleep makes it hard to concentrate

The extinction of the dinosaurs allowed our distant mammalian ancestors to start foraging during the day for the first time - and shaped our early evolution

Saturn's moon Enceladus seems to have a sandy core that warms water passing between the grains. This heating could help create conditions that are right for life

The quantum world is fragile; error correction codes are needed to protect the information stored in a quantum object from the deteriorating effects of noise. Quantum physicists in Innsbruck have developed a protocol to ...

What was humanity's first invention? Some say it was the wheel, while others say it was fire. But perhaps it was our invention of communication. Without this, no tool can be conceptualized, built, replicated, and improve...

(Phys.org)--By analyzing the statistical features of thousands of go games played by humans and computers, researchers have found that it's surprisingly easy to tell whether a game is being played by a human or by a comp...

New technology is pushing medicine into exciting frontiers, and it's getting better each year. Augmented reality is enhancing surgical training, machine learning algorithms are improving medical diagnostics, and the FDA ...

(Phys.org)--A pair of researchers with Tel Aviv University and the University of Chicago has found evidence suggesting that fusing quarks can release much more energy than anyone thought. In their paper published in the ...

Physicists understand little about quantum matter, which is a building block of future quantum computers. Theorists have now discovered that black holes with 'dreadlocks' harbor a similarly exotic order pattern, which ma...

The kilogram doesn't weigh a kilogram any more. This sad news was announced during a seminar at CERN on Thursday, 26 October by Professor Klaus von Klitzing, who was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discov...

If you were to try reciting the periodic table, you might stumble before you got to the rare earth elements.

Dysprosium is not only the atomic element with the strongest magnetic moments, but it also possesses another interesting property: Its magnetic moments point either all the same direction (ferromagnetism) or are tilted a...