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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.
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15 years of topological matter
15 years ago, topological insulators were discovered, marking the start of a new branch of condensed matter physics.
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Science at Extreme Pressures
Under extreme pressure, matter can exhibit novel or counter-intuitive phenomena such as superconductivity at unusually high-temperature, unexpected chemical stoichiometries and reaction kinetics, or new material phases.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
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The Higgs boson discovery turns ten
The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced ten years ago on the 4th of July 2012 — an event that substantially advanced our understanding of the origin of elementary particles’ masses.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their advances in complex physical systems. In
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Sensing at the limit
In this collection we highlight the latest progress in our ability to sense and image the world around us.
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Harnessing the power of computational science
The use and development of sophisticated computing capabilities to analyse and solve real-world, challenging problems has undoubtedly revolutionized the way researchers do science.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
We present this Collection of research, review and comment from Nature Research to celebrate the award of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our Galaxy”.
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40 years of the quantum Hall effect
The discovery of the quantum Hall effect in 1980 marked a turning point in condensed matter physics.
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Networks
Network science is now a mature research field, whose growth was catalysed by the introduction of the ‘small world’ network model in 1998.
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Interdisciplinarity in biological physics
