Excitement grows over mysterious signal in dark-matter detector
Theorists publish five explanations for puzzling excess electron recoils in XENON1T
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Searching for microfibres in the snow, differential equations make the world go round, Isaac Newton first edition found while house clearing
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Raining on the parade of self-driving cars
Developing sensors that enable autonomous vehicles to cope with tough weather conditions is tricky – and the economics may be more challenging still
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Overlooked for the Nobel: Lise Meitner
Disciplinary bias and a stew of other prejudices helped deny the physicist Lise Meitner a share of the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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Nobel prize sizzle: building excitement in the run-up to the physics award
Reflecting on 14 years of Nobel coverage
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D-Wave launches 5000 qubit system, solar-powered nanobeads could clean-up oil sands waste
Excerpts from the Red Folder
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Overlooked for the Nobel: Chien-Shiung Wu
Should Chien-Shiung Wu have shared the 1957 Nobel prize for her measurement of parity violation?
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Online conferences, auxetic materials and a new kind of rocket engine: the October 2020 issue of Physics World is now out
The October 2020 issue of your favourite magazine examines the benefits of virtual meetings
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Overlooked for the Nobel: Nicola Cabibbo
Could the Nobel committee have included Nicola Cabibbo for the 2008 prize?
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Overlooked for the Nobel: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell says she missed out on a Nobel prize for the discovery of pulsars because she was a student at the time, but did gender play a role?
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