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Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the “principle of minimum change” — updating beliefs as little as possible ...

For almost a century, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a particle's position and momentum cannot be known at the same time with absolute ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

Uncertainty is ubiquitous in the practice of medicine. This review characterizes clinical uncertainty and shows how teachers ...

Though the principle is not violated, a new way of fudging its restrictions could lead to improvements in ultra-precise ...

In a stunning leap for quantum optics, scientists have generated ultrafast light pulses whose quantum uncertainty can be ...

The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

Squeezed light is a specialized form of light in which quantum fluctuations are redistributed between two complementary ...