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

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.

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

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

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

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

A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, but many physicists ...

The interior of the vacuum chamber during a scattering experiment. The detector is shown in grey (top right) and the Au(111) gold surface is shown in yellow. The lines indicate the path of the ...