Whether a smartphone battery lasts longer or a new drug can be developed to treat incurable diseases depends on how stably ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single ...

Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to measure how long ultrafast quantum events actually last, without relying ...

After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly ...