Forgetting feels like a failure of attention, but physics treats it as a fundamental process with a measurable price. At the ...

Physicists talk about quantum physics, quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement, quantum computing but what if we could, by analogy, apply the quantum physics theory to our mind and talk about quantum ...

The idea that the universe itself might be intelligent sounds like science fiction, yet a growing group of researchers is ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

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Human behaviour is an enigma that fascinates many scientists. And there has been much discussion over the role of probability in explaining how our minds work.Probability is a mathematical framework d ...

Electrons start behaving strangely when they are squeezed into extremely flat sheets such as graphene, which is just one atom thick. This makes graphene a promising material for generating robust ...

We’ve had quantum science on our minds all year long, courtesy of 2025 being UNESCO’s International Year of Quantum Science ...

I remember being in my early 20s, sitting under an expansive sky, reading a strange yet captivating book titled The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukuv. It didn’t promise physics in the conventional ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Some of the most fascinating people that you meet at American Physical Society meetings are not actually physicists, and Bruce Rosenbaum is no exception. Based in Massachusetts, Rosenbaum is a maker ...