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New research explores the mechanics behind the "false vacuum" theory, the idea that the universe is in a state of only temporary stability.

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Physicists Find That the Universe Could “Collapse Like a House of Cards”

By Frank Landymore

We now have a new idea of what photons look like from a model that predicts how these particles of light interact with their environment.

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Scientists Say They’ve Discovered the Shape of Individual Photons

By Frank Landymore

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.

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Weird New Quantum Experiment Sounds Suspiciously Like Time Travel

By Frank Landymore

Most scientists believe in an immutable set of "laws of physics" — but one outlier among their ranks thinks those "laws" might not exist at all.

Physicist Says the Laws of Physics Don’t Actually Exist

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists claim to have solved on of the biggest paradoxes plaguing theoretical physicists for decades, the BBC reports.

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Hairy Black Holes Key to Solving Paradoxes of Universe

By Victor Tangermann

MIT researchers this week captured images of super-cold atoms moving from being governed by classic, to quantum, physics, forming quantum tornadoes.

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MIT Scientists Snap Images of “Quantum Tornadoes”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Quantum phenomena like proton tunneling can, in unusual cases, cause point mutations in human DNA, according to a new study.

Quantum Physics Can Mutate Human DNA, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

In a preprint paper, physics professor Vitaly Vanchurin from the University of Minnesota Duluth argues that the entire universe may be a neural network.

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Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

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Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

Quantum Darwinism, a mind-bending theory that pulls from biology to reconcile quantum mechanics and classical physics, holds up in three sets of tests.

Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests

By Kristin Houser

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.

Stacking Graphene Creates Entirely New Quantum States

By Kristin Houser

A Harvard physicist has proven that wormhole travel is possible, but rather than being a shortcut, it'd be a longer path between two points in space.

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Harvard Physicist: Wormhole Travel Is Possible, but It’s Not Fast

By Kristin Houser

A quantum radio chip allows researchers to tune in to the smallest radio frequencies

Researchers Tune in to Smallest Radio Frequency in Quantum Mechanics

Scientists Are Rethinking the Very Nature of Space and Time

Scientists Are Rethinking the Very Nature of Space and Time

By Kristin Houser

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Here’s What a World Powered by Quantum Computers Will Look Like

Everything You Need to Know About the Latest “Physics-Breaking” EM Drive Research

Everything You Need to Know About the Latest “Physics-Breaking” EM Drive Research