
What the Nobels Are—and Aren’t—Doing to Encourage Diversity
The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough
The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough
Twin probes from Hayabusa2 mission have sent back their first pictures from Ryugu’s surface
Haul thrills physicists, who previously knew of just a few hundred of these peculiar materials
The ubiquitous particles are helping to map the innards of pyramids and volcanoes, and spot missing nuclear waste
The ubiquitous particles are helping to map the innards of pyramids and volcanoes, and spot missing nuclear waste
NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory will allow physicists to play with quantum phenomena like never before
Physicists see the hallmarks of cosmic expansion in a ring of cold atoms
Physicists make misaligned sheets of the carbon material conduct electricity without resistance
Researchers intend to transport the elusive material between labs and use it to study the strange behavior of rare radioactive nuclei
Space agencies are planning a Deep Space Gateway to orbit the Moon
A former pharmaceutical boss will help navigate the U.K.'s exit from the European Union
Physicists begin to embrace alternative explanations for the missing material
Physicist Gil Lonzarich has sparked a revolution in the study of phase transitions driven by quantum fluctuations
Black hole merger pinpointed with record accuracy by the LIGO and Virgo observatories
U.S. plans to try a version covering race and disability; other countries have already embraced the voluntary rating system
In the shadow of the Large Hadron Collider, six teams are competing to answer one of the universe’s deepest existential questions
A billion-euro, 10-year “Quantum Technology Flagship” project will pursue advances in sensors, communications and computing
A new experiment to measure the behavior of muons in magnetic fields could reveal unknown particles
Bizarre forms of matter called time crystals were supposed to be physically impossible. Now they’re not
Physicists demonstrate the first single-atom magnetic storage
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