Architects Jestico + Whiles were challenged to make the Cavendish Laboratory's science accessible to the public while meeting ...

For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the nanoscale. Over and over, I've learned that when we shrink a material down to ...

The findings not only advances scientists' understanding of what quantumness really means over time, but also points to new ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in the centre. Credit: Leiden University. More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young ...

The idea that we’re living inside a simulation, as popularized by “The Matrix” franchise, has piqued the interest of scientists for decades. In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in a highly ...

A century ago when the quantum mechanics originators showed that nothing is real until observed, there already were many known examples. Without an observer completing the geometry, rainbows have no ...

Yang, who shared the Nobel Prize in 1957 and whom many scientists believe could and should have been in consideration for a second such distinction, became Stony Brook University’s first chairman of ...

He and a colleague created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics. By George Johnson Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical ...