Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Physicists at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms have pulled off a feat once confined to the blackboards of theorists ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

Werner Heisenberg submitted a paper to Zeitschrift für Physik entitled ‘On quantum-theoretical reinterpretation of kinematic and mechanical relationships’, thus giving birth to quantum mechanics. In ...

For the first time, a research team has successfully produced one of the most neutron-rich isotopes, hydrogen-6, in an ...

Welcome to the world of quanta, where nothing seems logical, but everything appears possible. A new era is dawning with quantum technologies helping us to better understand and order our world.

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So convincing is this model that after only twelve years it is known no longer as “the atomic model of Rutherford and Bohr,” but is simply taken for granted as “the atom.” In this ...

Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue.

An earthquake in central Myanmar just unearthed an ancient structure that may be part of a royal “water palace,” experts say. Previously, only a staircase was visible. Now, after the ...

November 20, 1925) have directed attention to the fact that a number of features of multiplet structure and the anomalous Zeeman effect can be described by assuming the electrons in the atom to ...