Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

For over a century, the Maxwell’s Demon paradox has haunted physics. This thought experiment suggests that a tiny, ...

The creators of Dark got the idea of introducing quantum physics into the series after reading a children's book on it.

Even in the fuzzy, probabilistic world of quantum physics, though, there’s a limit on how small you can go. Both ...

What is quantum physics? Put simply, it’s the physics that explains how everything works: the best description we have of the nature of the particles that make up matter and the forces with ...

For the first time, a mathematical framework proves that Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which explains the ...