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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1927, Oppenheimer published a paper called “On the Quantum Theory of Molecules” with his research adviser Max Born. This paper ...

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

For the first time, physicists have entangled two atoms while they were in motion and used the result to run one of quantum ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

For almost as long as Lawrence Livermore has existed, scientists have been experimenting with materials to learn what happens to them under high pressure. In the brief instant of a high-explosive ...

Quantum gas team: Frederik Møller, Philipp Schüttelkopf and Jörg Schmiedmayer in their laboratory at TU Wien. (Courtesy: TU Wien) Atoms in a one-dimensional quantum gas behave like a Newton’s cradle ...

Left: scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) image of a tantalum (Ta) film showing an oxide layer above the atoms of crystalline Ta metal. Right: STEM imaging combined with computational ...