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

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

Quantum physics has changed our lives decisively in recent decades. One hundred years after the mathematical formulation of quantum ...

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Sheldon Glashow recalls the events surrounding a remarkable decade of model building and discovery between 1964 and 1974.

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and none other than Niels Bohr, who revolutionized our understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 Rutherford’s most famous ...

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 ...