Appearance is one thing, but reality is another. The world does not appear to be a hologram, but maybe it is. Thus begins ...

In the natural world, many things come in mirror-image pairs. Your left and right hands are a perfect example—they look alike ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller ...

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which states that the better you know the position of a quantum object, the worse you know its momentum, and vice versa, provides a famous example (SN: 1/12/22).

As the world celebrates the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, it’s natural that we should focus on ...

For example, the canonical interpretation of the physics theory says that electrons exist in multiple states at once. Then once someone makes a measurement, the electron "picks" one of those states.

In adding a quantum science and technology concentration, Illinois Wesleyan University said it's joining a handful of Midwest ...

"In quantum physics you can never actually have full information about a system. We can choose a property of the system that we want to measure -- a so-called observable. This can be, for example ...

This clarifies important connections between thermodynamics, information theory and quantum physics. ... For example, if you know the positions and velocities of all the planets, ...