Classical physics encompasses the principles that govern macroscopic bodies, fields and continua in regimes where quantum and relativistic effects may be neglected. At its foundation lie Newton’s laws ...

From your morning coffee to the road leading to your office and all other things and people you experience in your everyday life are all part of the classical world. This world is governed by the ...

Once a baffling theory, quantum mechanics has evolved into a driving force behind modern technology and frontier research.

Physics Nobel Laureate John Martinis discussed his quantum physics research and offered academic advice to a packed ...

The quantum revolution in physics — whose 100th anniversary we have just celebrated — taught us that at the most basic level ...

Physicists are rethinking time itself. Long treated as a basic part of the universe, time may instead be an illusion—a side effect of quantum entanglement. A new study challenges the traditional idea ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

Classical physics theories suggest that when two or more electromagnetic waves interfere destructively (i.e., with their electric fields canceling each other out), they cannot interact with matter. In ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Science Advances. The original story “ Physicists use pulses of light ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems easy to grasp, it’s the second law of thermodynamics: Heat flows spontaneously from hotter ...

Recent research reveals that quantum mechanics can supersede the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale, challenging long-held principles of entropy and energy dissipation in microscopic ...