
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi win the 2025 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Trio honoured for their work on metal-organic frameworks
Trio honoured for their work on metal-organic frameworks
Trio honoured for their work on quantum tunnelling in superconducting circuits
The societies call on the US Congress to safeguard the integrity of the peer-review process
The Grace radiotherapy system delivers conventional X-ray radiation therapy to patients in the upright position
Cost overruns and delays have hit the drone-like rotorcraft mission
Smoot and John Mather discovered tiny temperature fluctuations in the CMB
STAR collaboration homes in on critical point for quark–gluon plasma
With further improvements, the instrument could enable direct tests of relativistic effects
Predictive model accelerates the development of nanoparticles as potential drug carriers for targeting neurodegenerative diseases
A lead halide material can detect and image single gamma-ray photons with both high-spatial and high-energy resolution
Physicists plan to test idea in the lab
New work could help improve quantum machine learning and quantum error correction
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Six physicists in the nuclear energy industry talk about their career paths, and how a background in physics can be used across the sector
Honor Powrie pays tribute to the work of materials scientists
Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates
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
Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity
Elizabeth Pasatembou and Dimitrie Cielecki discuss their experience of doing science policy engagement during their PhDs
Isabelle Dumé reports from the Q2B quantum conference in Paris, France
Matin Durrani counts down the five most signifiicant physics Nobels since 2000
It’s a mug’s game, but we always have a go
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The piece is currently on display at the National Museum of Stained Glass in Switzerland
How do we create a digital version of the vellum and clay tablets that successfully preserved information in earlier ages of human history?
Built on UHV Design’s Production Linear Shift Mechanism range (PLSM), new linear actuator allows heavy objects to be moved very smoothly, says UHV Design engineering director Jon...
Deep learning-based contouring of multiple brain metastases eases clinical workload when planning stereotactic radiosurgery treatments
The Dutch manufacturer Delft Circuits is rewriting the rules of I/O cabling technology for full-stack quantum computing systems
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