Engineers in Australia and France have now developed a way around this problem. By combining so-called architected metals ...

Two independent teams have realized the first clocks based on transitions within atomic nuclei. The new nuclear clocks represent the culmination of more than 20 years of research and could become ...

Researchers in the Netherlands have shown that they can turn off the dipole moment of molecules that are normally polar, ...

They built a DNA computer with Tristan Stérin and Constantine Evans. (Courtesy: Maynooth University) A DNA computer that ...

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Indu Satija celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Douglas Hofstadter’s eponymous, iconic butterfly and explains its enduring, magnetic appeal Each new realization adds another chapter ...

A new era in neuroscience Optogenetics has fundamentally altered our understanding of the brain. (Courtesy: © The Nobel ...

Most physicists learn they’ve won a Nobel prize after being phoned up by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. But, as Preetish ...

Hamish Johnston presents data showing how long different nations have had to wait before winning a Nobel Prize in Physics Waiting game Germany was the first nation to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, ...

Yukawa was born in Tokyo on 23 January 1907 graduating from Kyoto University in 1929. He then moved to Osaka University in ...

Physicists have experimentally reconstructed the quantum probability distribution of an exciton for the first time using ...

Incorporating satellite measurements of water vapour isotopes into weather models can improve weather forecasts, particularly ...