From artificial atoms to quantum information machines: Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...

Why are elements like radium dangerous? A chemist explains radioactivity and its health effects

Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

Scientists Find Secret Atomic Patterns in Common Metals, Challenging Decades of Theory

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Richard Ashcroft: ‘I’ll never experience anything like this summer again’

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Nobel Prize in physics goes to 3 scientists whose work advanced quantum technology

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 ...

2025 Nobel Chemistry Prize for Beginners: Breaking Good – how three scientists created materials that could save the planet

Learn about the 2025 Nobel Chemistry Prize winners who invented materials that could save the planet. Discover how ...

Random Musing: 2025 Nobel Physics Prize for Beginners - how three physicists built the real 'quantum world'

Discover the groundbreaking work of John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis in the field of quantum physics. Learn how ...