Chemists at the School of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently made ...

One cool part of physics summer programmes is meeting people who actually study physics for a living. Some are university ...

To fix this “ultraviolet catastrophe,” Max Planck proposed that energy come in discrete packets, or quanta. With this simple assumption — each atom emitting or absorbing only whole multiples of a tiny ...

God willing, this upcoming Monday and Tuesday—June 2nd and 3rd, 2025—we will joyfully celebrate the major Holiday of Shavuot, 3,337 years since the giving of our Holy Torah, the greatest ...

At the subatomic level where quantum mechanics operates, we can’t always see obvious changes that indicate time’s passage. Instead, we need to look at other indicators, like entropy.

A new method, protein–ligand QM-VM2 (PLQM-VM2), to calculate protein–ligand binding free energies by combining mining minima, a statistical mechanics end-point-based approach, with quantum mechanical ...

The reconciliation of general relativity and quantum mechanics is one of the biggest challenges in science, one that continues to elude us. Now, a new study by Anjun Chu and colleagues has ...

Researchers around the world are intrigued because these plants seem to tap into the puzzling principles of quantum mechanics to manage light energy with hardly any losses. Understanding ...

To simplify the problem, the team made two key assumptions. First, they treated the vast environment surrounding the system in such a way that they could focus only on the quantum system itself.

This breakthrough in understanding photosynthesis at the quantum level marks a significant step toward unlocking new, nature-inspired energy solutions. As scientists continue to explore the ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of ...

In the case of CTCs, this return occurs at regular intervals, dictated by the curve’s properties. Dr. Gavassino’s research demonstrates how quantum mechanics ensures the self-consistency of time loops ...