We finally have a demonstration of a quantum effect that was predicted years ago, which is capable of making invisible matter. The process that the MIT researchers witnessed is called Pauli blocking.

Imagine opening the weekend paper and looking through the puzzle pages for the Sudoku. You spend your morning working through this logic puzzle, only to realise by the last few squares there’s no ...

Quantum physics didn’t set out to explain the mind. It set out to explain matter. And yet, the deeper scientists went into the smallest building blocks of reality, the harder it became to ignore one ...