Quantum theory is often sold as a story about tiny particles, but its real disruption lands squarely on our everyday sense of ...

Quantum experiments keep stripping away our everyday intuitions, replacing them with a picture of reality in which cause, effect and even “facts” depend on how we look. New tests of entanglement, ...

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Time may not be a fundamental element of the universe but rather an illusion ...

Over the past 50 years, astronomers have made dozens of major discoveries that help explain the nature and origins of the universe. They’ve measured the cosmic microwave background, or leftover ...

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, ...