Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...

Google’s Willow quantum processor achieved the first verifiable quantum advantage, running the Quantum Echoes algorithm ...

Today's computers store information in magnetic hard drives, keeping files safe even when the device is powered off. But to ...

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what they have learned to make ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...