"No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon." — John Archibald Wheeler We used to think the observer was a passive witness to the universe. What if the observer is actually ...

Heating up Physicists have shown that a colder trapped-ion qubit can warm-up faster than a hotter qubit. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia-Fux) The inverse Mpemba ...

Heat is supposed to need something to cling to, whether vibrating atoms in a metal rod or infrared light streaming from a hot stove. Yet a series of recent experiments suggests that empty space is not ...

Three Pillars of Quantum Physics To grasp the scope of this question, we should first examine three generally accepted principles of quantum physics. When taken together, I argue that these principles ...