Electron spin can create differences between mirror-image molecules, a potential explanation for why life favors one ...

A quantum spin liquid is a phase of matter in which the magnetic moments in a material do not align or freeze, even at ...

Quantum computers, which operate leveraging quantum mechanics phenomena, could eventually tackle some optimization and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Superconductivity occurs when electrical current moves without resistance, a phenomenon that gave rise to particle accelerators, magnetic resonance imagining machines and trains ...

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) constitute a platform to explore various quantum effects. Their size-dependent colors are essentially a naked-eye, ambient-condition visualization of the quantum ...

Researchers uncover a mechanism that may explain why biology consistently selects one molecular form over its mirror image. A new study suggests that life’s long-standing preference for one “handed” ...

A Franco-Spanish physics team has found that a hypothetical massive spin-3/2 particle cannot be consistently described without also including gravity. Using standard positivity bounds in a weakly ...

From lasers and semiconductors to X-rays and the Web, physicists can be credited with seeding numerous technologies that have changed how we live. Hamish Johnston presents five spin-offs from physics ...

What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them quantum physicists – up at night for decades. At very small scales, we know ...