The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck David Spiegelhalter Pelican (2024) As I sat down to read David Spiegelhalter’s The Art of Uncertainty, much of the world’s ...

"With this, we can detect very tiny changes in both position and momentum at once, beyond the limit of any classical sensor," ...

For almost a century, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle has stood as one of the defining ideas of quantum physics: a particle’s position and momentum cannot be known at the same time with absolute ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life—and, potentially, the way we study physics. Her ...