Though the principle is not violated, a new way of fudging its restrictions could lead to improvements in ultra-precise ...

An informal lecture decades ago at the University of Waterloo is changing the world today. When Mike Lazaridis was studying electrical engineering at UW, one of his professors, Lynn Watt, was a ...

Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

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The Chinese particle physicist Chen-Ning Yang died on 18 October at the age of 103. Yang shared half of the 1957 Nobel Prize ...

John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis win the 2025 Physics Prize. Honored for making quantum mechanical tunneling visible in electric circuits. The list of nobel prize winners now includes ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

A cornerstone of quantum physics is uncertainty. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states the more precisely you pinpoint the position of a particle, the less precisely you can know its momentum at ...

A British scientist is among three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into quantum mechanical tunnelling. John Clarke, a Cambridge University alumnus, conducted his research ...

A team of physicists say they have found a way to sidestep Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, one of the more troublesome and irritating rules of our universe. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, for ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: The measurement problem in quantum mechanics looks at how an experimental outcome changes, simply by observing it. While most physicists agree that human ...