Unless you're a physicist, you've probably only encountered quantum mechanics on TV.And even when it was explained, you might've still been a little confused.The field of quantum mechanics was ...

But many of us don't even understand what quantum mechanics is — or how it's deepening our understanding of the universe. For today's installment of our series, "The Scientific Method," we ...

Quantum mechanics involves how things work at the subatomic level, while general relativity describes classical theory, which has aspects of what physicists call local realism, where things happen ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, physicists are still debating the true nature of this strange theory - and ...

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle ...

In some ways, death doesn't exist in quantum mechanics. No wonder Albert Einstein thought it made no sense at all, even if the math added up.

Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that means. Quantum mechanics depicts a counter ...

Meanwhile in 2025 we celebrate 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics, which lead to this powerful yet baffling computing style that can't even run Doom.

More information: Violetta Sharoglazova et al, Energy–speed relationship of quantum particles challenges Bohmian mechanics, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09099-4 ...

Physicist Max Tegmark, now a professor of physics at MIT, popularized the idea in 1997 as a way to think about quantum mechanics, the physics that explains how the tiniest particles, like atoms ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of ...