Two giant canyons on the Moon were created in less than ten minutes, according to a new study analyzing clues about their formation. The findings could impact NASA's upcoming Artemis missions to the ...

First devised by physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1925, his thought experiment evocatively describes the weird rules of the quantum world by imagining a cat placed inside an opaque box with a ...

Schrödinger's cat,' a thought experiment in which a cat placed in a box is considered to be alive or dead, was proposed by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in the early 20th century.

R. Soc., including Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford, and Erwin Schrödinger. The Proceedings started out in 1800 as the Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the ...

In the history of mankind, few ideas have profoundly reshaped how we understand nature and its processes. One such breakthrough was the advent of quantum mechanics, which emerged a century ago and ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger countered with a hypothetical situation in 1935: a cat is placed in a sealed box with a bit of radioactive material, a Geiger counter, and a jar of poison.

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

fishg/iStock / Getty Images Plus First proposed in 1935 by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, "Schrödinger's cat" was designed to highlight the physicist's concerns with one ...

Discover how scientists blend biology, synthetic biology, and astrobiology to speculate on alien life forms, focusing on the ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...