Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, like almonds, according to a new study by Japanese scientists.

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully recreated a signif ...

The choreography of the actors’ movements as they pace along the circular stage, apparently meant to evoke the supposed motions of electrons in Bohr’s first atomic theory, adds to the ...

Max Planck really got the ball rolling for quantum physics by introducing the idea of energy coming in tiny packets, or ...

To get into quantum physics colleges, you usually need a strong background in science, math, and computer skills. When ...

In this very non-technical talk Baym describes how quantum mechanics came about, starting with physicists in the late ...

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a tunable system that paves the way for ...

Address given at the Newton Tercentenary Celebration, The Royal Society, London, July 1946 : Newton's principles and modern atomic mechanics / N. Bohr ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

The latter especially has made very important contributions to our subject by his ingenious attempts to develop ideas about atomic constitution on the basis of the electron theory.