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We recently reported on a theory that says our universe might not have gotten its start when it collapsed in on itself and exploded. The theory says that such an event may have been prevented by the ...

SAN ANTONIO — Quantum mechanics is science’s equivalent of political polarization. Voters either take sides and argue with each other endlessly, or stay home and accept politics as it is. Physicists ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. Quantum mechanics says not merely that the world is ...