"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In 1948, Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir—who worked with one of the fathers of quantum physics, Neils ...

Spooky science Scientists have used the spooky properties of quantum physics to create light out of empty space. Researchers including Professor Tim Duty from the University of New South Wales in ...

Physicists in Germany have made the first direct measurements of the “critical Casimir effect”, a classical analogue of the strange quantum effect that draws two conducting surfaces together in a ...

The so-called Casimir force or Casimir effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon resulting from fluctuations in the electromagnetic field between two conducting or dielectric surfaces that are a short ...

In the quantum realm, nothing is nothing. Even “empty” space, when we shrink down to the weird world where the laws of quantum mechanics reign supreme, is not really empty, but is filled with virtual ...

Since the 1950s physicists have been able to show that quantum fluctuations in a vacuum will cause two surfaces to attract one another, a phenomenon known as the Casimir effect. Now researchers in the ...

Now, the secretive DARPA, a research agency of the U.S. Department of Defense that often dabbles in far-out technologies – and that also brought us the Internet's predecessor ARPANET – is soliciting ...

For the first time, a group led by Nobel laureate Eric Cornell at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder has confirmed a 1955 prediction, by ...

Quantum energy startup Casimir has raised $12 million in an oversubscribed seed round. The Houston, Texas-based company said it would use the funding to accelerate the commercialization of its ...