AuthorAn ion trap helped create a quantum defect in two places at onceANDREW BROOKES, NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Exotic quantum rifts have been created with charged atoms, and they…
AuthorQuantum theory is poking holes in our understanding of entropyVICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Measuring disorder in the quantum realm is creating a bit of a mess. A mathematical study…
AuthorSome quantum systems may resist an effect of entropy called thermalisationGiroscience / Science Photo Library The fundamental laws of physics insist that no patterns can permanently survive nature’s steady course…
AuthorGravitational wave detectors use laser beams in tubes that span kilometresThe Virgo Collaboration Gravitational waves that span thousands to billions of miles can be obscured in our detectors by the…
AuthorIf the multiverse exists, our world could fit right inMARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Could we live in a quantum multiverse without ever noticing its oddness? A simulation suggests that…
AuthorCan effect come before cause in the quantum realm? Maybe notVink Fan/Shutterstock First comes cause, then comes effect – or does it? This order of events has previously been upended…
AuthorRyan Wills; adboestock/Getty images As one of the original architects of quantum theory, perhaps our most successful scientific idea, you would think that Niels Bohr would have been interested in…
AuthorAn experiment with beams of photons has confirmed quantum weirdness existsluchschenF/Shutterstock The world is as weird as we feared. A new experiment confirms yet again the existence of correlations between…
AuthorDo quantum interactions help brain cells stay in sync?Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement. If backed by experimental observations,…
AuthorHector Vivas/Getty Images This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective special, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest…
