Charting disciplines This infographic shows the fields of physics associated with successive Nobel Prizes for Physics. Click on the image to expand. (Courtesy: Alison Tovey/IOP Publishing) Part of the ...

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Ahead of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics, Physics World editors recall amusing brushes with Nobel laureates past and present. Here, Margaret Harris remembers a tongue-in-cheek e-mail exchange with ...

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Nov. 6, 2024 — Supersolids are a new form of quantum matter that has only recently been demonstrated. The state of matter can be produced artificially in ultracold, dipolar quantum gases. A team ...

The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favored moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that discovered the ...