Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

This so-called one-dimensional alternating Heisenberg model was described almost 100 years ago by physicist and later Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum mechanics.

First quantum-mechanical model of quasicrystals reveals why they exist. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more. Your name. Note.

In the end, Bohr used classical math for part of his atom model and then mixed quantum physics into it in four specific ways. Two were directly related to Planck’s radiation theory, involving ...

Researchers in Korea have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that predicts molecular properties by learning ...

Molecules like CO 2 can absorb them only when the packets have exactly the right amount of energy to bump the molecule up to a different quantum mechanical state. Carbon dioxide usually sits in its ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

The Bohr model is a neat but quite imperfect depiction of the inner workings of an atom before things got too muddled up by quantum principles. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Physicists have used a novel technique to observe individual atoms interacting in free space for the first time ever. The new technique confirms a century-old quantum mechanical theory.

One hundred years after Niels Bohr published his model of the atom, a special issue of Nature explores its legacy — and how much there is still to learn about atomic structure.

Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature—is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong. Well, "wrong" isn't exactly ...

His particular bone of contention was the Bohr–Sommerfeld model of the atom, named after the two physicists, Niels Bohr and Arnold Sommerfeld, who developed it in the 1910s.