Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

In this video, I explain supersymmetry (SUSY), its significance, and why it remains undiscovered. Supersymmetry posits a new ...

A pair of identical particles swapping places sounds like a small move. In quantum physics, it is a defining one. In everyday three-dimensional space, that swap only comes in two flavors. Either the ...

Physicists have uncovered a path to one-dimensional anyons, exotic particles that defy the boson-fermion divide and could reshape quantum physics as we know it. The research, presented in two papers ...

European scientists have discovered a new state of matter inside a quantum material, and it behaves in a way no one expected. Electric current suddenly flows sideways without any magnetic field, even ...

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and the University of Oklahoma have pinpointed a one-dimensional system where such particles can exist and have examined their ...

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties and—perhaps oddest of all—particles that spontaneously spring into being from the ...

Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most important features of a quantum particle is whether it is an introvert—a ...