The rules of statistical physics address the uncertainty about the state of a system that arises when that system interacts with its environment. But they've long missed another kind. In a new paper, ...

Accurately tracking atmospheric greenhouse gases requires not only fast predictions but also reliable estimates of uncertainty. Researchers have developed a lightweight machine learning framework that ...

I like to believe that we embody the names we are given. And since my name is Joyful, I’ve always defaulted to this mental state even in periods of uncertainty. People have repeatedly commented that ...

In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle dictates that the position and speed of an object cannot both be known fully precisely at the same time. Researchers now show that two ...

Theoretical physicists from the Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) in Allahabad have derived a new kind of relation in quantum mechanics called the "Reverse Uncertainty Relation", that could find ...

The uncertainty principle states that we cannot know the state of a system with arbitrary precision. Now the uncertainty relation between angular momentum and position has been measured in an ...

Drawing on captured Nazi documents found in Soviet archives and other recently released materials, Cassidy (J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century) offers a new view of the German wunderkind ...