The "walking moai hypothesis" could end a long-time debate over how ancient engineers moved these iconic statues around Easter Island.
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...
On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: three shiny new medals, 11 million Swedish kronor (to be divided ...
10h
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ultracold electronics research that launched a quantum technology
The discovery that superconducting circuits can behave like quantum particles was a revolutionary development in the field of quantum technologies.
Most scientists follow this pronunciation for exactly that reason: it’s neutral. It avoids the scatological “yoor-AY-nuhss” while staying close to its Latin roots. Another accepted variant is ...
Others were less easily persuaded. Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the ...
Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once.
BERLIN — For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honoring a discovery made decades ago. One of the ...
A knock at the door. A call from a strange number. Here's how the Nobel Prize winners heard they won
This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks. The winners join the pantheon of Nobel laureates, from Albert Einstein to ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback