Let's face it: nothing makes sense in the topsy tu...  ...: nothing makes sense in the topsy turvy world of quantum physics . Light can be both wave and particle. Schrödinge...  ...r! Well, add this to the weirdness that is quantum physics : quantum systems can heat up b...

So, today is Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödi...  ...he neatest facts about Erwin Schrödinger. No physics involved, we promise! 1. The Challenge Tha...  ...2. The Schrödinger Banknote A physics post-doc once said to me that "there's no mo...  ...oc once said to me that &...

Photo: Tom Purdy In 1927, Werner...  ...rtainty Principle, a peculiar aspect of quantum mechanics that asserts that the mere act of...  ...l fluctuations from drowning out this quantum effect. [...] The results of the recent...  ...in that they show both classica...

The nose knows, but how exactly is a mat...  ...binding, olfaction works through quantum vibrations. In a sense, fancy and exotic physics occur with every odor that you smell:...

Damn you, quantum physics ! Just as we got used to the mind-boggling fact...  ...can act as either a wave OR as a particle, a new quantum physics experiment has shown that it can act li...  ...same time. The device relies on a strange quantum effect called...

[http://youtu.be/i1TVZIBj7UA] (YouTube link)The fo...  ...be/i1TVZIBj7UA] (YouTube link)The folks at minute physics devotes over four minutes to quantum mechanics, but that's still a concise overview. A...

Look Out Schrödinger's Ca...  ...ts have managed to probe the state of a quantum object without collapsing it - the equi...  ...quot; says Vijay. Because this is quantum physics , however, such an action comes with a p...

Someone told you that you can't...  ...ou can! At least in the quirky world of quantum physics . Physicists have created light out of noth...  ...irdest, and most important, tenets of quantum mechanics: the principle that empty space...  ...ple that empty space...

What do you get when quantum physicists learn to play a con game? A paper in N...  ...cists learn to play a con game? A paper in Nature Physics , of course! We won't pretend to understand a word...  ...t Physorg, but we hope it will one day bring on a quantum super computer so w...

If you think you've got a firm grasp on reality, o...  ...t a firm grasp on reality, obviously you're not a quantum physicist. Recently, a new study by physicists in...  ...ew study by physicists in Australia revealed that quantum entanglement - a puzzling quantum physics pheno...