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A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

Jason Bono was one of the researchers behind a major scientific moment — when tiny particles unexpectedly unraveled one of the most important and successful theories in physics. Bono, who earned his ...

An illustration conveying the idea of a space-based quantum internet, which would seem, like the hypothetical particle of a tachyon, to outpace light. An illustration ...

Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013 for discovering the God Particle. His theory shook the scientific world in 1964 when he first proposed it. Renowned British physicist Peter Higgs, who ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. “Higgs” is Peter Higgs, a professor at Edinburgh, who made ...