"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Perhaps one of the most famous experiments in physics has been giving us the wrong message all these years. For nearly two ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

A new concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light. When massive cosmic objects such as black holes merge or neutron stars crash into one another, they can produce gravitational ...

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

In recent years, heat has stopped being just a number on a thermometer and has become something we can literally see at the atomic scale. In 2025, an ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...