This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, written in the wake of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, when the U.S. and Soviet Union were racing to ...

MIT physicists perform the most precise double-slit experiment using ultracold atoms, confirming Bohr’s quantum theory over ...

For nearly a hundred years, one of the most celebrated minds in science, Albert Einstein, had a lingering quantum thought ...

In Nick Payne's Incognito at Tin Drum Theatre, a scientist steals Einstein's brain—and then things get really weird.

MIT scientist built an idealized, atomic-scale version of the famous double slit experiment which showed Albert Einstein was ...

It turns out that some of the historical facts you've held onto might be myths. Even today, U.S. classrooms sometimes ...

A groundbreaking quantum experiment conducted by MIT physicists has turned a major page in the long-standing debate between ...

This quantum balancing act—long debated by Einstein and Bohr—was tested without traditional “spring” components, instead relying on atomic “fuzziness” to confirm Bohr’s view: you can’t observe both ...

"God does not play dice." This famous remark by Albert Einstein critiqued the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics.

One of the biggest challenges in modern physics is uniting quantum mechanics and general relativity. A new experiment may ...

What exactly is gravity, and how does it work? From Newton’s early groundbreaking discoveries to Einstein’s revolutionary theory of relativity, gravity has always been one of the most fascinating ...