A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner ...

Marie Curie made groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity, earning her two Nobel Prizes. She discovered polonium and ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

The world's highest award for scientific achievement in the field of water research goes to Prof. Günter Blöschl of TU Wien. For many years, he and his team at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering ...

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Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or qubits.

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By taking two flakes of special materials that are just one atom thick and twisting them at high angles, researchers at the ...

Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...