Filmed to mark CERN’s seventieth anniversary, The Peace Particle combines poetry, music and rare archival footage, alongside special access to the Large Hadron Collider, to reveal how CERN was born ...

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An impulse to probe the existential mysteries of life inspired Francis Crick to unlock the structure of DNA, posits ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

The scientists included Otto Hahn, who in 1938 had discovered that uranium could fission and who had received the Nobel Prize in 1944; Werner Heisenberg, one of the inventors of quantum mechanics ...

This explanation—with contributions from notable physicists Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and others—describes a particle existing in what’s called a superposition, or existing in all ...

Although the basic idea of quantum physics dates back to the earliest years of the twentieth century, it wasn’t until 1925, on the German island of Heligoland, that Werner Heisenberg had the ...

Brittany Robertson with PNNL's Heisenberg cube (Image: PNNL) No-one is sure how PNNL's Heisenberg cube - which the laboratory uses to help train international border guards and nuclear forensics ...

If you could calculate a table of probabilities like this, Heisenberg reasoned, you could check a theory against experiments. As the next century would show, though, you could do more. By studying the ...

Before Marvel’s multiverse shenanigans, the experiment was referenced in the likes of Monty Python, Doctor Who, Futurama, House, and The Big Bang Theory, as well as appearing on Rick and Morty.

Heisenberg himself was opposed to the idea of a nuclear bomb, saying "at the bottom of my heart I was really glad it was to be an engine and not a bomb." The German scientists at Farm Hall went on ...