Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Dark matter remains one of the most mysterious substances in the universe. We can’t see it, but we know it’s out there, ...

The world's first solar magnetic-field telescope operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range has officially become ...

“In a GHZ state, if you measure one qubit, the whole superposition collapses. But in a W state, even if you measure one ...

The mystery of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere is far hotter than its surface has long puzzled scientists. The solar corona ...

According to a new Physical Review Letters study, black holes could help solve the dark matter mystery. The shadowy regions ...

"It's a fairly unusual question to ask in the scientific world, because most researchers would agree that dark matter is dark ...

Black holes could soon help us understand dark matter. These extreme objects, long considered light traps, are now becoming observational tools. Through finer analysis of their images, ...

Researchers have developed an optical "knob" using Poincaré sphere engineering to continuously tune topological states in ferroelectric materials. Unlike prior methods relying on abrupt electrical or ...

University of Iowa researchers have demonstrated in two new studies how a semiconductor material can be used to create ...

New device emits photons in telecom fiber band from the start, so it avoids a separate converter that can waste photons.

In 1964, physicist John Bell formulated what became known as Bell's Theorem, showing that if quantum mechanics is correct, such correlations cannot be explained by any hidden loca ...