For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of the ...
A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most ...
Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.
A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...
Over the last few years, optical atomic clocks have broken record after record in precision timekeeping. Atoms are cooled to ...
The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may be hiding in a quantum recipe to cook up black holes. That's the suggestion of new research that adds quantum corrections to ...
A long-standing challenge in physics has been to integrate gravity into the Standard Model, which successfully describes the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces. The difficulty lies in the ...
In quantum physics, objects can exist in multiple states at the same time—a phenomenon known as quantum superposition, where a particle does not have a single definite value of position or momentum ...
The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...
A gold sphere levitates over a semiconductor with an electrical bias. In new research, engineers at the University of California, Davis, have shown that biased semiconductors can control the Casimir ...