If you could sit perfectly still in a patch of space far from any stars, planets, or particles — utter emptiness — you might ...

Oxford scientists have simulated light interacting with “empty” space—a strange quantum effect that sounds like science ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have simulated a way to summon light, seemingly out of thin air. Their work is quite ...

Classical physics predicts that light beams pass through each other undisturbed. But quantum mechanics holds that even what ...

Empty spaces in the dark only appear to be complete voids. Even intergalactic space (in the absence of dust particles) has a ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state of its entangled pair regardless of distance. This strange fact flies in ...

Quantum key distribution (QKD), a cryptographic technique rooted in quantum physics principles, has shown significant ...

You’d think there would be a law against this, and scientists thought there was, but somehow it happens, and it could help ...

Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in ...

By controlling individual atoms, researchers have demonstrated a way to turn previously unwanted atomic motion into an ...

Kennesaw State University researcher Mahmoud Asmar has received a three-year grant worth $799,800 from the U.S. Department of ...

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's ...