Wave or particle? Science continues to unravel one of humanity's greatest mysteries in this universe in rather useful ways.

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Duisburg-Essen showed that metallic nanoparticles made of thousands of sodium atoms still obey the rules of quantum mechanics. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. person's face blurred A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon ...

Extremely cold atoms have been nudged to self-magnify their quantum states so they can be imaged in unprecedented detail. This could help researchers better understand what quantum particles do in odd ...

A new analysis reveals what happens when very short or narrow electron beams encounter a particle. The research is published ...

Sorta sparked by this comment someone made to me but it's similar to what other people have told me before: I was listening to a lecture on quantum electrodynamics and it helped me conceptualize the ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843. But in his ...