Andre Geim took British citizenship to accept a knighthood. He has just learned he can no longer be a citizen of the ...

Some atomic nuclei are not shaped like rugby balls, as a longstanding theory suggests, but are instead somewhat flattened, ...

The cutting-edge elementary particle observation facility here where it is hoped proton decay will be observed for the first ...

He developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and made foundational discoveries that ...

Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

The will established five fields that would receive the awards: physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and peace. Nobel also detailed specific criteria to be used by each committee in ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Sir Joseph Rotblat CBE KCMG, PhD 1950, Hon DSci 1989Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

We submit below the transcript of an allegedly secret meeting of the committee to decide the Nobel Awards for this year, ...

The Big Bang may mark an end—not the start—of a previous universe's aeon. Penrose's theory sees the universe as an eternal ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming that the United States was no ...