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Read article: Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him
Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him
Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates
Read article: Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics
Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics
Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why
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New system does not need to drift to avoid turbulence
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Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns
Schwinger effect appears in a 2D superfluid
Physicists model vacuum tunnelling in a simple system
Meniscus size and shape affect how liquid waves move through barriers
Effect could come in useful for a host of practical applications that call for fluid control
Cosmic muons monitor river sediments surrounding Shanghai tunnel
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A backpack equipped with gyroscopes shows promise as a balance aid for people with the movement disorder ataxia and could one day remove the need for cumbersome mobility aids
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Environmental physics should be on a par with quantum physics or optics
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Cosmic microwave background pioneer George Smoot dies aged 80
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Read article: Discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN inspires new stained-glass artwork
Discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN inspires new stained-glass artwork
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Quarter of UK physics departments face closure, finds IOP report
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Negative time observed in photon-atom interaction
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Bridging the gap between scientists, policy makers and industry to build the quantum ecosystem
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Harnessing quantum duality for object imaging
Wave and particle properties can encode information about the shape of an object
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Compact diamond magnetometer detects metastatic tumours
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Delft Circuits: cryogenic RF cable innovations offer a flexible path to quantum scalability
The Dutch manufacturer Delft Circuits is rewriting the rules of I/O cabling technology for full-stack quantum computing systems
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