A glittering hunk of crystal gets its iridescence from a highly regular atomic structure. Frank Wilczek, the 2012 Nobel ...

The world’s first all-optical radio runs on laser light, not electricity, opening new possibilities for stealth sensors and ...

In a levitation breakthrough, scientists have created a virtually frictionless, macroscale levitating disk that requires no ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a surprising quantum effect inside an organic material, something ...

Spectrum Instrumentation, DDS technology enables microwave ion control for quantum computing. 17/10/2025 Spectrum ...

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

Sonny White updates his work on using nanoscale fabrication to harness the Casimir effect. He has a company, Casimir space, working to commercialize it. The Casimir force in quantum mechanics has ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In quantum field theory, a vacuum is never completely empty. Electromagnetic particles like electrons and positrons are always passing through in ...

The vacuum of space is a chaotic sea of quantum fluctuations. Some have said that this vacuum energy can be harvested to build our future starship engines. It can't. But it is technically possible to ...

In a supercooled lab setting, a tiny crystal has quietly flipped a half-century-old assumption on its head. Scientists at Rice University have reported the first direct observation of a long-predicted ...