Most metals look silvery. Gold looks golden. (But remember, “all that glitters is not gold”.) The reason isn’t myth or magic: ...

While quantum mechanics explains the small-scale, low-energy behavior of electrons, relativity becomes important when those same electrons move fast enough for strange effects like spin-orbit coupling ...

Scientists propose a groundbreaking experiment using quantum computers and atomic clocks to test whether gravity alters the ...

At the edge of two exotic materials, scientists have discovered a new state of matter called a "quantum liquid crystal" that ...

Quantum field theory (QFT) is a physics framework that describes how particles and forces behave based on principles rooted ...

What would a wormhole really look like? It's unlikely that wormholes truly exist, but here's what they would look like if ...

Scientists have discovered a new way that matter can exist – one that is different from the usual states of solid, liquid, ...

When a molecule of tryptophan absorbs ultraviolet light, it glows faintly as it lets off lower-frequency energy. This soft ...

Researchers conquer Cold War physics dilemma with peak power innovation that could one day spell doom for satellites passing ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency ...