When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

In quantum mechanics, particles do not behave like everyday objects. Instead of existing in one clearly defined state, they ...

Only about 5% of the universe is composed of normal matter that we can directly observe, while the remaining 95% is widely ...

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

A new method reveals hidden order in quantum systems, potentially transforming how they are measured and used.

Physics labs at Purdue and beyond are more than just coursework—they’re training grounds for future scientists. From foundational experiments to advanced independent research, students learn to design ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics ...

For more than a century, gravity and quantum physics have stubbornly resisted a common language, one describing the smooth curvature of spacetime, the other the jittery statistics of particles and ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...