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 ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

The theory of quantum mechanics has transformed daily life since being proposed a century ago, yet how it works remains a mystery. Quantum mechanics have led to the ...

Sept. 24, 2025 — Physicists in Australia and Britain report they have reshaped quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle – a result that could ...

According to legend, physicist Werner Heisenberg formulated the mathematics behind quantum mechanics in 1925 while on a restorative trip to the remote North Sea island of Heligoland. To celebrate the ...

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 ...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science — and makes much of modern life possible. Technologies ranging from computer chips to medical-imaging machines rely on the ...

In the 1920s, when quantum mechanics was young, physicists Jane Dewey and Laura Chalk performed some of the first experimental tests of the theory, based on a phenomenon called the Stark effect. Later ...