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

Physicist Werner Heisenberg is said to have made his breakthrough in quantum mechanics while visiting the island of Heligoland in 1925. Credit: Günter Gräfenhain/mauritius images via Alamy.

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 ...

Science itself has had no claim to certainty since German physicist Werner Heisenberg introduced his Uncertainty Principle in 1927. It means scientists, in observing things, interfere with what they ...

Journalist Graff (When the Sea Came Alive) delivers a magisterial oral history of the atomic bomb.The book opens by tracing enigmatic statements about the atom from the ancient Greeks to Isaac ...

A century after Werner Heisenberg first formulated the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, we stand witness to ...

Three-time Emmy winner Brad Garrett is practically Pixar royalty at this point, seeing as Elio marks his fifth collaboration ...

Time travels forward for us, but in the quantum world, it may flow in two directions. Gravity itself may follow quantum rules. Quantum mechanics supports the possibility of alternative universes, but ...

It was a century ago in Helgoland that the physicist Werner Heisenberg devised the mathematical framework that underpins our understanding of quantum physics.. Matin was there with some of the world’s ...

Island thinking Helgoland, looking south from roughly the spot where Werner Heisenberg supposedly discovered quantum mechanics in June 1925. (Courtesy: Matin Durrani) Jack Harris, a quantum physicist ...

Europe has strong quantum research, but less capital than the USA and China. How does Europe stay ahead in the global quantum ...

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle holds things together. Articulated by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg almost a century ago, it remains the foundation of the physical world. Its name ...