Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

For the first time, researchers at MIT have visually captured a bizarre wave of pure heat moving through an exotic state of ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The ...

In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional ...

Entrepreneurs with a fire suppression technology developed by a NASA engineer wants to prevent a repeat of L.A. wildfires by ...

A wildfire burns in the hills of a Los Angeles suburb, leaping from one patch of dry brush to another as it approaches a cluster of homes. The landscaping at the first house burns, but the house ...

A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...

ABSTRACT: Perceived reality is an illusion. We exist in a universal quantum geometrical system that operates because of consciousness, not in isolation from it. Consciousness is not a byproduct of ...

The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in the centre. Credit: Leiden University. More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young ...

Electron microscope image of the superfluid wave tank used in the experiments (blue) coupled to an optical fibre which brings laser light in and out of the device. The zoom-in shows the photonic ...