Quantum physics didn’t set out to explain the mind. It set out to explain matter. And yet, the deeper scientists went into ...

"No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon." — John Archibald Wheeler We used to think the observer was a passive witness to the universe. What if the observer is part of ...

The novel “Observer” plays off the idea that acts of observation give rise to the reality we observe. (Adobe Stock / Thapana Studio) Do we each create our own reality? Could different observers create ...

Interactions between electrons in solids often lead to effects that go beyond simple, intuitive pictures of what should be possible. One example stems from the Hall effect, which describes how the ...

Death is often seen as the end—an absolute, irreversible cessation of consciousness and physical function. For centuries, every culture has developed rituals, religions, and philosophies to grapple ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...