If thinking about the quantum theory doesn’t make you schwindlig (dizzy), then you haven’t understood it, Niels Bohr, its great patriarch, famously (well, famously among physicists) remarked. Quantum ...

Even popular science is not safe from Bond mania. Manjit Kumar describes how Einstein, appointed to Prague University in 1911, found the pay cheque "a quantum of solace against the creeping sense of ...

Niels Bohr's Nobel Lecture on December 11, 1922, titled The Structure of the Atom, is one of the most significant contributions to our understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics. This ...

For millennia, atoms had been phantoms, widely suspected to exist but remaining stubbornly invisible — though not indivisible, as their name (Greek for “uncuttable”) originally implied. By the start ...