That circuit was a superconducting device called a Josephson junction and their work in the 1980s led to the development of some of today’s most promising technologies for quantum computers.

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are honoured for their work on metal-organic frameworks (Courtesy: Niklas Elmehed for Nobel Prize Outreach ) Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar ...

Six physicists in the nuclear energy industry talk about their career paths, and how a background in physics can be used across the sector ...

Predictive model accelerates the development of nanoparticles as potential drug carriers for targeting neurodegenerative ...

While error correction should become more effective as the number of physical qubits in a logical qubit increases, adding ...

Built on UHV Design’s Production Linear Shift Mechanism range (PLSM), new linear actuator allows heavy objects to be moved ...

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...

The order outlines several previous grants that it says have not aligned with the Trump administration’s current policies, ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never ...

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns ...

Join the audience for a live webinar at 5 p.m. GMT/1 p.m EST on 29 October. To learn about calendar aging challenges in next generation Si based Li-ion batteries and how to measure and improve it ...

Planetary scientist Scott Bolton describes his working life at the helm of NASA’s Jupiter-exploring Juno mission ...