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October 6, 20254 min readThe 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Researchers Who Showed Quantum Tunneling on a ChipJohn Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John…

The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for pioneering experiments that paved the way for the next generation…

The heads of UK physics departments say their subject is facing a national crisis as one in four warns that their university departments are in danger…

Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the pantheon of greatness alongside the likes…

The German physicist Herwig Schopper, who has died aged 101, was director general of Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, from 1981 to 1988, overseeing…

A quarter of state secondary schools in England will start the new term with no dedicated physics teacher, with schools in poorer areas worst affected, analysis…

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, according to UNESCO, marking 100 years since quantum mechanics was proposed. The theory hardly needed…

A flat pint of beer with no head is a common gripe among pub-goers. And while the bar staff’s pint-pulling technique is often assumed to be…

The Surprising Math and Physics behind the 2026 World Cup Soccer BallHere’s how the new tetrahedron-based design for the “Trionda” soccer ball may affect next year’s…

Superheated Gold Defies ‘Entropy Catastrophe’ Limit, Overturning 40-Year-Old PhysicsPhysicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of…