Researchers use an updated version of slit experiment, and figure out who was correct between Einstein and Bohrs regarding ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature—is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong. Well, "wrong" isn't exactly ...

Nearly a century after Danish physicist Niels Bohr offered his planet-like model of the hydrogen atom, physicists have created giant, millimeter-sized atoms that resemble it more closely than any ...

Niels Bohr was born and educated in Copenhagen, Denmark. He lived, worked, and died there, too. But his mark on science and history was worldwide. His professional work and personal convictions were ...

Seeing the world through a quantum lens brought us some of the most transformative technological innovations of the 20 th century: nuclear energy (and bombs), transistors and semiconductors, lasers ...

Niels Bohr motorcycling with his wife, Margrethe, in around 1930 (Image: Uhlenbeck Collection/American Institute Of Physics/Science Photo Library) Art’s effect on science isn’t always clear, ...