This article is part of a series of essays written by Black physicists and co-published with Physics Today as part of #BlackInPhysics week 2022, an event dedicated to celebrating Black physicists and ...

“But in today’s world, this response can be overwhelming as we face all types of uncertainty.” Gollan tells anxious patients: “The anxiety response isn’t a sign of something wrong with you.

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 ...

Suppose I make a brand-new physics-based candy bar called the Newton Nougat Crunch. Before it goes on the market, I need to determine how many calories it contains.

But the principle is quantitative. A high uncertainty about the position of, say, an electron is compensated by a low uncertainty in its momentum. The principle is vital in helping us to understand ...

The Uncertainty Principle suggests we can never know all the properties of a particle at the same time.

Little is known of how teens learn about emotions online and then use that knowledge to cope with social uncertainty during in-person encounters.

A new study by neuroscientists shows that our brain deals with different forms of visual uncertainty during movements in distinct ways. Depending on the type of uncertainty, planning and execution ...

Heisenberg’s famous Uncertainty Principle is put to the test to see if things really are uncertain in the quantum world.

Whether you’re laughing right now—or staring at your screen in confusion—hinges on how much you know about one of the foundational ideas in quantum physics: Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.