Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Einstein’s brain wasn’t larger — it was built differently. The region responsible for spatial reasoning was wider than normal ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse offered the only chance to test Albert Einstein's radical new theory of gravity, General ...

Einstein doubted the core idea of complementarity by Niels Bohr. Bohr said quantum objects act like waves and particles.

The exploration of quantum information challenges objective reality, positing the universe as a hologram is explored through ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...

Exceptionally precise’ set-up mimics thought experiment devised by sceptical genius to disprove the then-emerging field.

A fifteen-year-old dubbed "Belgium's little Einstein" has completed his PhD in quantum physics in what could be record time.

Are we medicating or "special educating" young geniuses out of becoming future Einsteins when their late talking is ...

In a development drawing global attention, 15-year-old prodigy Laurent Simons has officially secured his doctorate in quantum ...