Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...

Data is big business and storing it takes big infrastructure: hard drives, server racks and warehouses across the globe. We’re generating so much new data so quickly that in the next few decades we ...

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single atom? Not in a mystical sense, but in the very real way that one tiny system ...

An atom is the smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties. It is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. (Image: M ...

Mention the words, “splitting the atom,” and most people will automatically think of nuclear fission, bombs and radioactivity. Recently, however, physicists at Germany’s University of Bonn not only ...