Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...

For decades, the story went that Bohr’s anti-realism triumphed over Einstein’s quest for a deeper reality. Physicists were told to "shut up and calculate" and metaphysical debates were dismissed as ...

Little is known about the circumstances that led the teenage Albert Einstein not to follow through with his bar mitzvah, but ...

More than 1,600 respondents reflected the chilling effect across research fields caused by the slashing of federal funding ...

It’s been 100 years since a young German unlocked the mysteries of quantum mechanics. See how that gave us smartphones, GPS, MRIs. See what’s next.

The International Year of Quantum inaugural event was organised at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in February 2025.

You can read more about this topic here: “Bohr, Einstein and Bell: what the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics tells us about quantum mechanics” This article forms part of Physics World‘s contribution to ...

Described politically as an “Obama-loving, (George W.) Bush-loathing liberal,” Dyson immersed himself in the science of climate change, read the prominent and influential studies and watched Gore’s ...