Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. Even after an acclimatisation period of more than 100 years, quantum mechanical phenomena still conflicts with our intuition of ...

Quantum delocalization In an artistic rendering, a silica nanoparticle is held by laser light. The uncertainty in the particle’s position spreads and recompresses (blue trajectories), illustrating ...

For the first time, scientists noticed that tiny fluctuations of quantum energy actually “kicked” a large mirror out of alignment — the first tangible impact of quantum noise at the human scale. The ...

One of the oddest pairs in the sky is also much celebrated. NGC 4319, a 13th-magnitude galaxy in Draco, is a nice little barred spiral that’s easy to see with a 12-inch or 14-inch scope. What makes ...

Physicists working at the world’s largest gravitational wave observatory have cooled their apparatus to near absolute zero in a bid to explore the so-called "quantum limit," or the point at which the ...

Humans can visually perceive the motion of a small object better than that of a large one. By contrast, according to a study reported in the journal Current Biology on September 5, babies under 6 ...

A new "tractor beam" can levitate large objects in midair, using only sound. So far, researchers have floated spheres as large as 0.6 inches (16 millimeters) in diameter and moved orbs as large as 0.8 ...

Scientists have seen "spooky" quantum behaviour happening to objects at the human scale, according to a new paper. Researchers have seen quantum fluctuations "kick" large objects such as mirrors, ...

It's a frustrating limitation of 3D printing: Printed objects must be smaller than the machine making them. Huge machines are impractical for printing large parts because they take up too much space ...

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