21 July 2023
Newton’s first law of motion says that particles move in straight lines unless influenced by a force but a new experiment shows that the quantum version of that assumption fails for quantum particles of light
9 June 2023
A drop of very cold liquid helium can be made to float for an indefinitely long time using strong magnets and quantum effects
24 April 2023
More than 100 charged calcium atoms chilled to extremely low temperatures have been arranged into a two-dimensional crystal, which could be used for studying quantum materials or building quantum computations
14 March 2023
This physics-inspired circus performance enthralled attendees of the American Physical Society’s March Meeting, but a casual observer may have missed some of the scientific concepts that performers enacted
9 November 2022
A first-of-its-kind experiment simulating the cosmos with ultracold potassium atoms suggests that in a curved, expanding universe pairs of particles pop up out of empty space
29 March 2022
New Scientist met physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili to discuss how to live a more curious "life scientific".
13 August 2021
A decades-old theory to simplify silicon quantum processors has been shown to work, potentially paving the way for vastly more powerful quantum devices
21 June 2021
Emmy Noether is famous for Noether’s theorem, which says that symmetries in the universe give rise to mathematical conservation laws
12 May 2021
Superdeterminism makes sense of the quantum world by suggesting it is not as random as it seems, but critics say it undermines the whole premise of science. Does the idea deserve its terrible reputation?
14 April 2021
A powerful new idea about how the laws of physics work could bring breakthroughs on everything from quantum gravity to consciousness, says researcher Chiara Marletto
