Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

A new theoretical approach is proposed to explain the nature of the well-known narrow and intense optical J-band of ...

As Heisenberg explained in the paper’s introduction, in light of the ... concept in quantum mechanics. From mid-1926 onwards, physicists also applied quantum theory to an ever-expanding array ...

Yet, quantum mechanics is far from complete. Despite its success in explaining a wide range of phenomena, questions remain.

How quantum mechanics emerged in a few revolutionary ... to encompass objects that move at close to light speed, something that the original quantum theory did not. These efforts drastically ...

While parallel universes are a staple of science fiction, there are some real scientific theories to support them. But if ...

Quantum computing has the potential of being the next big innovation. At the right size and the right price, it might even be ...

A new perspective on the universe could emerge if superluminal observers, those who theoretically move faster than light, ...

Experiments conducted at Montana State University in collaboration with Columbia University and the Honda Research Institute have resulted in the emission of single photons of light in a new type of ...

8, 2025 — A research team has achieved a groundbreaking quantum simulation ... are lost within the millions of light particles ... Dec. 17, 2024 — String theory remains elusive as a 'provable ...

Once confined to the province of abstract theory, quantum computing seeks to use operations based on quantum mechanics to ...

In Bohr’s 1913 papers he envisaged atoms along the lines established by his mentor Ernest Rutherford: dense nuclei orbited by ...