Philip Ball peers into the quantum past, and uncovers a little-known paper published by Niels Bohr, Hendrik Kramers and John Slater in 1924, that proposed that the first law of thermodynamics may no ...

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 ...

As profound as was the work of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in physics, their thoughts and practice in education were of the same nature. In 1952 Einstein wrote an article titled, “Education f ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is ...

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”; whether it is the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr or others who have ...

Scientists have, for the first time, observed a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, releasing over 3,000 billion ...

Scientists have documented an unprecedented glacial flood in East Greenland, where an estimated 3,000 billion liters of ...