At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

Wave-particle duality is a fundamental fact of the Universe. But we don’t see many objects moving around as waves. This is why it hurts when a golf ball hits you on the head: you and the golf ball are ...

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the observation that matter behaves differently at the smallest scales. A key ...

Physicists have finally watched positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, behave like a rippling quantum wave instead of a tiny billiard ball. In a set of ...

Quantum physics tell us that even massive particles can behave like waves, as if they could be in several places at once. This phenomenon is typically proven in the diffraction of a matter wave at a ...

The first real-time movie of large molecules creating an interference pattern after passing through two slits has been made by an international team of physicists. As well as being a beautiful example ...

Researchers achieved nanometer-scale resolution without requiring a dark state, expanding super-resolution imaging to non-fluorescent molecules and non-optical waves. The findings published in Nature ...

The (relatively) ancient art of crystallography has had a huge impact on modern science by showing us the location of atoms within a molecule. The structure of DNA (and how it acts as an information ...

The quantum interference of large molecules can be recorded in real time thanks to state-of-the-art nanofabrication and nano-imaging technologies. Quantum physics predicts a variety of ...