A cat is in a sealed box. It is both alive and dead, at least until you open the lid. Inside the sealed chamber also sits a vial of poison. This vial could be triggered to break by a tiny amount of ...

Erwin Schrödinger is the latest person to be celebrated with a Google Doodle. To mark the 126th anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist's birth, the Doodle features a cartoon of his famous ...

In the world’s most famous thought experiment, physicist Erwin Schrödinger described how a cat in a box could be in an uncertain predicament. The peculiar rules of quantum theory meant that it could ...

The thought experiment has yet to be resolved, but researchers are still seeking to explain the fate of the cat in the box. Here's how their work may help to explain the building blocks of the ...

WANTED: DEAD AND ALIVE! When it comes to Schrödinger’s cat, the hipster T-shirts write themselves. The zombie feline in an ambiguous state of animation fascinates the wider world. For quantum ...

In today’s complex political climate, it’s easy to feel torn between two sides of a political issue—you support the spirit of a policy, but you’re uneasy about how it’s implemented. Or perhaps you’ve ...