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.

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, hides one of the oldest puzzles in physics: what really happens to the ...

Quantum physics is the realm of the strange. And one of the strangest discoveries in the field is also one of the most fundamental: Particles fired at barriers with two slits in them can act like ...

“Using newer mathematical tools, my colleague and I have demonstrated a new theory that may accurately describe the universe.

Photonics integrates quantum mechanics with light, fostering innovations in quantum computing, secure data transfer, and high ...

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Researchers at the LIGO gravitational wave observatory used a new technique called frequency-dependent squeezing to boost weak signals above quantum noise. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

An international collaboration has developed a new diagnostic technique for measuring ultra-short particle beams at STFC's ...