Scientific references abounded in Breaking Bad, even if some of them went over the heads of the most ardent viewers. A few of those references were through symbolism in the field of chemistry. However ...

Devised by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the so-called uncertainty principle states that we cannot accurately know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or ...

WEST BERLIN—A West German physicist has begun a new effort to mobilize scientific and technical resources against some of the world’s most pressing problems. The idea of creating a Global Challenges ...

In his 1998 play “Copenhagen,” Michael Frayn used the Heisenberg uncertainty principle — a cornerstone of modern physics — as a metaphor for the impossibility of pinning down historical facts when ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

A writer, a physicist, and a philosopher walk into a bar ... While this could be the hoary setup for a groan-inducing joke, replace "bar" with "book" and you have the gist of The Rigor of Angels: ...

How close were the Nazis getting to making an atom bomb? This frightening question spurred U.S. bombmakers throughout the war. It also helped still their consciences. The Germans never came very close ...

Late one summer morning in 1919, a young student at the University of Munich sat on the roof of its Training College with a copy of Plato’s Timaeus. The short but bloody reign of the Bavarian Soviet ...