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 ...

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 ball tossed into the air follows a path that classical physics can track with confidence. Shrink that ball down to the size ...

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

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

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

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

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

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

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...