In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, but many physicists ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...