The efficient conversion of solar energy into storable forms of chemical energy is the dream of many engineers. Nature found ...

A recent study led by quantum researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved popular among ...

Physicists have performed a groundbreaking simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenomenon that could determine ...

The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

In the vast and enigmatic realm of quantum mechanics, where the rules of classical physics give way to probabilities and ...

A new study is shining fresh light on how green plants and other photosynthetic organisms transport solar energy so ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Photosynthesis -- mainly carried out by plants -- is based on a remarkably efficient energy conversion process. To generate chemical energy, sunlight must first be captured and transported further.

False vacuum decay model shows why our universe may be living on borrowed time In a nutshell Scientists used a 5,564-qubit ...

But according to quantum theory, entropy should actually stay the same. Scientists took a closer look and resolved this apparent ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...