The Curious Wavefunction

How do we regulate a revolutionary new technology with great potential for harm and good? A 380-year-old polemic provides guidance. In 1644,...

For a long time there's been a kind of Cold War with a slow moving front between philosophers and scientists, especially physicists. The...

Simple but neat atypical calculation of energy released in fission (from Glasstone and Sesonske, “Nuclear Reactor Engineering”). It’s a nice...

It may seem hard to believe now, but in 1865, by the time the Civil War ended, Russia was America's best friend in Europe. The two count...

Every once in a while there is a person of consummate achievement in a field, a person who while widely known to workers in that field is vi...

  In Niels Bohr's original 1913 formulation of the quantum atom, the Bohr radius r was proportional to n^2, n being the principal quantu...