The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation . This was an intense ...

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, astronomers have just uncovered a colossal cosmic structure, breaking all previous ...

Even in the fuzzy, probabilistic world of quantum physics, though, there’s a limit on how small you can go. Both ...

A pair of physicists at the University of Crete has found that some types of biological magnetoreceptors used by various ...

The energy resolution limit (ERL) is a mix of parameters representing the economics of a quantum system within a sensor's ...

Based on observations of the CMB radiation by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft, the standard model predicts that ...

The universe expands...through what? Experts might have a suggestion. Expansion may be happening at a faster rate than ...

Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, ...

Physicists in Germany have developed a new way of defining the standard unit of electrical resistance. The advantage of the ...

This effect is called the effect of nuclear reorganization. The time of a quantum transition is equal to Planck's constant divided by the energy of nuclear reorganization, and it is of the order of ...