Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

The Tesla, Trump & Twitter guy is way too functional, too mercenary, too glib, too lacking in humanity and any kind of self-awareness, and too morally compromised to be any kind of philosopher king.

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

This four-year programme offers an outstanding education in a thriving field of science and medical physics. You will gain a strong foundation in core physics as well as specialist knowledge of how ...

Philip Ball peers into the quantum past, and uncovers a little-known paper published by Niels Bohr, Hendrik Kramers and John Slater in 1924, that proposed that the first law of thermodynamics may no ...

When it comes to exploring the moon, it’s all about dirt. Planetary physicist Philip Metzger at the University of Central Florida is the king of moon dirt, or regolith. In 2013, he cofounded a ...

When physicist Niels Bohr observed the difficulty of predicting the future, cybercrime wasn’t yet a certainty alongside death and taxes. Today, in our interconnected world, it has become an ...

In February 1925, Wolfgang Pauli – like Heisenberg a part of the team in the orbit of Niels Bohr’s Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen, Denmark – published a paper (in German) titled ‘On ...

Vanderbilt University physicist Lorenzo Gavassino isn't so sure this is as big an obstacle as time-traveler pessimists have made out. In a recent examination of the finer details on entropy, space, ...

Professor Urbasi Sinha from the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru has been honored with the Gates-Cambridge Impact Prize 2025 for her innovative work in quantum computing and technology.