Positronium shouldn't last long enough to be interesting. It's an "atom" assembled from an electron and its antimatter twin — ...

Exotic paths: artist's impression of the microwave triple-slot experiment. Courtesy: G Rengaraj et al/New Journal of Physics) The importance of including exotic “non-classical paths” in analyses of ...

With a carefully designed experiment and a handful of tin atoms, University of Tennessee, Knoxville's physicists have found a ...

Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Einstein believed that, by using a complicated double-slit experiment involving a spring that recoils ...

The quantum rules shaping molecular collisions are now coming into focus, offering fresh insights for chemistry and materials science. When molecules collide with surfaces, a complex exchange of ...

Physicists in Europe and the US have performed a novel version of the double-slit quantum-interference experiment with single electrons. In the classic version of the experiment, electrons pass ...