String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

This documentary starts with the theory as proposed by John Dalton in 1808, and outlines the progress made during the nineteenth century bringing in Faraday's early experiments in electrolysis, ...

Editor’s Note: Professor WERNER HEISENBERG, who was born in Duisburg in 1901, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work on the quantum theory. A member of the faculty of the ...

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single ...

ENGLISH readers will welcome this authoritative account by Prof. Bohr of the application of his theory to atomic structure. The essay has been translated from the Zeitschrift fur Physik by L. F.

The U.S. all-star football game in the atomic ruins of Nagasaki--and why it matters today The second atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki in August 1945 has become known as "the forgotten bomb." Less than ...

In the renowned Feynman Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman stated that if all scientific knowledge were destroyed and only one statement could be passed on to the next generation, he believed it ...

History in North Carolina was almost irreparably changed when two nuclear bombs fell from a crashing military airplane, landing in a field near Goldsboro. Other WRAL Top Stories The site where one of ...