We aren’t sure if [Looking Glass Universe] didn’t trust the accepted number for Planck’s constant, or just wanted the ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...

Quantum jumps are usually regarded to be instantaneous. However, new measurement methods are so precise that it has now become possible to observe such a process and to measure its duration precisely ...

Scientific American presents Everyday Einstein by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. When you think of Albert Einstein, what do you think of?

IN a letter dated April 26 which appeared in NATURE of May 12, Mr. Stuhlmann, of Princeton University, U.S.A., describes some experiments which he has carried out on the photoelectric effect of ...

The dynamics of electrons changes ever so slightly on each interaction with a photon. Physicists have now measured such interplay in its arguably purest form -- by recording the attosecond-scale time ...

Albert Einstein never won a Nobel prize for the theory of relativity—in fact, it was only through long, political jockeying within the Nobel committee that he won the prize at all. Instead, when he ...