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The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

Photos and videos of astronauts on the ISS show them floating around, but saying there's zero gravity isn't fully accurate.

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The 2025 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for the discovery of an effect that has applications in medical devices and quantum computing.

Penn State scientists have unveiled a new theory-driven method to predict superconductors, offering a possible path toward ...

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It is once again Nobel Prize season, and this year’s top prize in physics honours three quantum physicists for their discovery of “macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling an ...

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But perhaps this was because the academy’s announcement had committed the journalist’s faux pas of burying the lead: the science led to the invention of a crucial part of the technology for making ...