Chien-Shiung Wu’s trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist.

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...

This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Entanglement -- linking distant particles or groups of particles so that one cannot be described without the other -- is at the core of the quantum revolution changing the face ...

Pioneering female Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu, who worked with Robert Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project, was also the first to confirm quantum entanglement – just 14 years ...

Even Quantum Physics Obeys the Law of Entropy Jan. 29, 2025 — The universe is getting more disordered, entropy is growing -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. But according to quantum ...

Oppenheimer returned from Europe to teach physics at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he tried to secure a position for his ...