A lead halide material can detect and image single gamma-ray photons with both high-spatial and high-energy resolution ...

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

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

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

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Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

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

A look at some of the more unconventional applications of radiation therapy reported at the ASTRO 2025 meeting ...

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George Smoot , who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2006 for his studies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), died on 18 September at the age of 80. Smoot’s work on the blackbody form and ...