And it had traveled from somewhere far beyond our galaxy.

167 years ago today, Max Planck was born in Kiel, Germany. As the father of quantum theory, he changed everything about the understanding of the atomic and the subatomic worlds. He collected the ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Quantum physics reshapes our view of time, not as a steady flow, but as unfolding possibilities shaped by probability—and ...

Many atomic nuclei have a magnetic field similar to that of Earth. However, directly at the surface of a heavy nucleus such ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex ... Their newly devised theory, outlined in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, is an extension of conventional ...

Light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, challenging traditional wave-particle thinking.

The first big clue came from Max Planck, a German physicist who’s now known as the father of quantum theory. Around 1900, he was studying how hot objects give off light—why, for example ...

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 ...

APRIL 23 of this year was the ninetieth anniversary of Max Planck‘s birth, and it had been the hope of his colleagues and admirers that the day might be the occasion of a simple festivity at ...