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A review of major biological discoveries — including the role of DNA, the biological basis of psychology, and the human genome — that never received science's top honor, raising questions …
Mexico's president announces a 111% increase in the science and technology research fund, adding 1.676 billion pesos, alongside a 48% rise in approved projects and new strategic initiatives in electromobility, …
Abdus Salam shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for unifying the weak and electromagnetic forces, but his Ahmadi faith led Pakistan to marginalize its greatest physicist, while Imperial College …
French physicist Jean Dalibard has been awarded the 2025 Alessandro Volta Prize for his pioneering work on laser cooling and ultracold atoms, with applications ranging from quantum computing to atomic …
Indian physicist C V Raman sailed to Stockholm in 1930 convinced he would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. He did, becoming the first person from India to win a …
Using laser-trapped atoms as a quantum simulator, Caltech researchers have observed energy ratios that theory predicted four decades ago, opening a new way to probe unknown quantum systems.
A new study using ancient sea-level records reveals that Earth's geographic poles shifted dramatically four times in the geological past, at rates exceeding 0.6 degrees per million years.
A new analysis examines why five foundational physics discoveries were overlooked by the Nobel Committee, citing political interference, poor timing, and scientific skepticism as key factors.
An international study of more than 3,500 children in 44 countries found that three- and four-year-olds walk about 18,000 steps daily, with wide variation linked to income, location, and gender.
Using ultrafast photoemission orbital tomography, researchers in Austria and Germany have reconstructed the quantum probability distribution of an exciton in an organic semiconductor, tracking its spatial contraction within 400 femtoseconds …
Scientists have demonstrated a long-sought method for identifying W states, a form of multi-photon quantum entanglement, potentially easing the measurement of complex entangled systems and advancing quantum teleportation, communication, and …
Citation analysis and recent award patterns point to organic LEDs, multiferroics, and the quantum anomalous Hall effect as strong candidates for this year's physics Nobel, while particle physics faces structural …
The most comprehensive analysis of Higgs boson data from the CMS experiment confirms the particle's behavior matches Standard Model expectations, constraining theories of new physics.
The newly launched journal Vita is part of a broader Chinese government plan to give the country a bigger say in what counts as high quality science, according to Nature.
Chemist Ionel Haiduc, who led the Romanian Academy from 2006 to 2014 and was a member of the Academia Europaea, has died at 89. His work spanned organometallic and supramolecular …
Justice Samuel Alito has stepped aside from a Supreme Court climate case after scrutiny over his stock holdings in oil companies, removing one vote from a dispute over whether fossil …
Luciana Gatti, a leading researcher on Amazon carbon uptake, is running for Brazil's lower house in next week's elections, citing frustration with politicians who ignore scientific evidence.
Freelance peer-review jobs arranged through third-party companies are raising practical and ethical questions about the integrity of scientific assessment, according to a report in Nature.
A new perspective study argues that decades of fossil fuel and conservative donor pressure on US universities helped set the stage for the Trump administration's recent attacks on climate and …
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time using real-world satellite data that incorporating heavy water isotope measurements into weather models improves forecasts of wind, temperature, and heavy rainfall up to …
