Quantum mechanics is full of states that seem to defy ordinary sense, but one of its strangest ideas has usually been built ...

Schrödinger’s cat, famously, is both alive and dead – but what if it could be something else as well? Researchers at the ...

Quantum mechanics, unlike classical physics, allows objects to exist in more than one state at the same time. This idea is ...

The quantum superposition principle has been tested on a scale as never before in a new study by scientists at the University of Vienna in collaboration with the University of Basel. Hot, complex ...

The concept of cause and effect plays an important role in both our everyday lives, and in physics. If you set a ball down in front of a window and kick it hard, a split-second later the ball will hit ...

Deep underground: the Gran Sasso low radioactivity lab where the experiment was done. (Courtesy: Massimiliano De Deo, LNGS-INFN) A controversial theory put forward by physicist Roger Penrose and ...