If we want to see quantum weirdness with our eyes, we’ll need Bose-Einstein Condensates. The weird rules of quantum mechanics lead to all sorts of bizarre phenomena on tiny scales— particles ...

An international team of physicists recently published research indicating quantum computers aren’t the way to go for those hoping to break the second law of thermodynamics, the one that says there’s ...

Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle tells us it’s impossible to know simultaneously the location and the velocity of a subatomic particle. It’s one of the main ideas that famously prompted ...

Perhaps the most persistent nonsense in physics: the perpetual motion machine. Bad ideas come and go in physics. But there’s one bit of nonsense that is perhaps more persistent than all others: the ...

It doesn’t look like quantum mechanics will ever be intuitive. Take away one of its weirdest components – the uncertainty principle – and you end up with a perpetual motion machine. The finding dashes ...