According to Newton’s third law, all actions are paired with reciprocal reactions. But breaking this principle allowed an artificial swimmer to move upstream in a quantum stream of light
Space scientist Maggie Aderin tells Karmela Padavic-Callaghan about these stunning photographs from the James Webb Space Telescope, which feature in her new book
The Edge of Space-Time, the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, is a dreamer’s book, full of curiosity, love, fun, art – and gloriously hard theoretical physics, says Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
A challenging mathematical effort undertaken by a team of undergraduates has put bounds on a promising set of ways to break and upgrade the standard model of particle physics
Decades after it was posited as a foundational principle of quantum physics, Richard Feynman’s “path integral” has been directly measured in an experiment for the first time
Craig Gidney is largely unknown outside of quantum computing, but his pioneering work on quantum circuits could have huge consequences for us all, ushering in both useful quantum computers, and the end of digital privacy and security as we know it
Irrational numbers have underpinned quantum mechanics for a century. Removing them could eliminate its strangest features and trigger the biggest upheaval in physics since quantum theory began
Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter – or some even more exotic phenomenon
