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February 4, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmPhysicists trace particles back to the quantum vacuumScientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles…

A hundred years ago this week, at the height of the quantum revolution, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger submitted a manuscript for publication. Its centerpiece was an…

Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ — a quantum state in which an object exists in a…

Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics. Although many of them disagree wildly about how…

Physicists are questioning whether gravity can produce quantum entanglement between two masses.Credit: David Parker/Science Photo LibraryThe nature of gravity — and whether it can be reconciled…

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging…

Superheated Gold Defies ‘Entropy Catastrophe’ Limit, Overturning 40-Year-Old PhysicsPhysicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of…