Norwegian-US Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever dies aged 96
Giaever made pioneering progress in the late 1950s on electron tunnelling in superconductors
Read article: Norwegian-US Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever dies aged 96
Read article: Norwegian-US Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever dies aged 96
PhD student Ekaterina Shanina wins Early Career Researcher Award for PET phantom study
UC Davis student wins journal award for developing a novel brain phantom for positron emission tomography
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Large-scale commercial applications of quantum computing remain a distant promise, claims report
Inaugural MIT Quantum Index Report finds that venture capital funding is providing billions of dollars into the field
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Vera C Rubin Observatory reveals its first spectacular images of the cosmos
Pictures include the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas and the Virgo cluster
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Japan’s ispace suffers second lunar landing failure
ispace was attempting to become the first non-US firm to land on the Moon
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Thinking of switching research fields? Beware the citation ‘pivot penalty’ revealed by new study
The pivot penalty increases the further away a researcher shifts from their previous topic of research
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Leinweber Foundation ploughs $90m into US theoretical physics
The cash will be used to establish a Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics at five US institutions
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China launches Tianwen-2 asteroid sample-return mission
The craft will aim to collect about 100 g of material from a “quasi-satellite” of Earth
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Richard Bond and George Efstathiou share the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Pair are honoured for their work on the cosmic microwave background
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Delta.g wins IOP’s qBIG prize for its gravity sensors
Portable instrument detects underground infrastructure using quantum interference
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