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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to unifying the weak and electromagnetic forces, but ...

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

The Quantum Fringe filled the summer with inspiring events for students, scientists and the public, and celebrated the third ...