After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

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Bawendi made his first quantum dot breakthrough during his postdoctoral years working under Louis Brus, one of the researchers who discovered quantum dots in the 1980s and one of Bawendi’s ...

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This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

It’s been 100 years since a young German unlocked the mysteries of quantum mechanics. See how that gave us smartphones, GPS, MRIs. See what’s next.

Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...

And with this round’s $100,000 total prize pool, there’s big money on the line along with bragging rights as teams and players stake their claims as the top teams in the esport. The ...

Jacob Bourjaily, associate professor of physics at Penn State, was honored with the Lars Kann-Rasmussen Prize for 2025 by the Niels Bohr International Academy (NBIA), in Copenhagen, Denmark. The prize ...

Officially dubbed the “X Bracket Challenge,” Elon Musk launched a bracket challenge where the grand prize for a perfect bracket is a trip to Mars aboard a Space X spaceship. If no bracket is ...