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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA ...

The annual Nobel Prizes must “stand up” for scientific learning and free inquiry in an age when both are under growing threat ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics also went to two scientists for their work in AI-related research. Hassabis added that it had been his dream for 30 years to “use AI to advance our understanding of ...

The Partiet Sentrum, a Norwegian political party, faced backlash after it nominated incarcerated former prime minister and ...

In a post on X, the PTI said, “Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, ...

Slip on banana peel, take a tumble: the classic comedy gag! Mabuchi Kiyoshi's serious search for scientific proof of that slipperiness revealed that peels have properties similar to human body parts!

Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems.

Research institutes, companies and nonprofits around the world endorsed plea for urgent action to avoid a looming hunger ...