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A rare and vivid atmospheric event has been captured from orbit, offering scientists new insight into how lightning behaves far above Earth’s weather systems. Astronauts aboard the International Space ...

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.

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered quantum physics on a macroscopic scale, paving the way for quantum computing.

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