A new experiment confirms that angular momentum conservation holds even when a single photon is split into two.

A backpack equipped with gyroscopes shows promise as a balance aid for people with the movement disorder ataxia and could one day remove the need for cumbersome mobility aids ...

September 2025Today, scientist David DiVincenzo is being honoured for his research in the field of quantum computing - a century after quantum ...

In 1972, Stephen Hawking published a seminal study showing that as two black holes merge, the surface area of the final event horizon must be larger than the sum of the surface areas of the two ...

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, hides one of the oldest puzzles in physics: what really happens to the ...

THE work of Compton on X-ray scattering led to the general acceptance of the idea that the scattering of radiation by a material particle is a unitary process in which energy and linear momentum are ...