For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum ...

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This week’s cover of Science features a graphic symbolizing the Greek letter Ψ (psi), which represents the wave function, a ...

In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...

Max Born made many contributions to quantum theory. This said, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1954 for ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to ...

In the deadly game Russian roulette, a player loads a gun with a single bullet, spins the cylinder to randomize the bullet’s position, and turns the potentially lethal weapon on their own self. But in ...

In the 18th century, the scientific world was drunk on Newtonian certainty. The universe was a clockwork mechanism, ...