A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

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Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

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