ICFO Researchers report the discovery of a new technique that could drastically improve the sensitivity of instruments such as magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs) and atomic clocks. The study, published ...

Quantum particles are not really just particles…they are also waves. The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in ...

Devised by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the so-called uncertainty principle states that we cannot accurately know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

In the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Heisenberg, Werner” lies between “Heidegger, Martin” and “Hell.” That is precisely where he belongs. Heisenberg, one of the inventors of quantum mechanics ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro recently began a report about the expected flood of lawyers in post-election Florida by stating: In quantum physics, there's a theory called Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. It ...

An experiment conducted at the University of Toronto has thrown a fundamental aspect of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle into doubt. For decades, we’ve believed that you can’t measure a quantum ...

In 1927, Werner Heisenberg was in Denmark working at Niels Bohr's research institute in Copenhagen. The two scientists worked closely on theoretical investigations into quantum theory and the nature ...

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- the fundamental impossibility of simultaneously measuring entities such as position and momentum exactly -- is at the heart of quantum theory. Physicists have now ...

An entrepreneur looking to grow his business probably wouldn't think to pick the brain of an early 20th-century physicist and pioneer of quantum mechanics. But marketing experts have applied the work ...