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On Tuesday 7 October the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced. The process of choosing the winners is highly secretive, so looking for hints about who will be this year’s ...

Join us for an exclusive in-person event at the Royal Institution in central London this November, as the Institute of Physics commemorates the past, present and future of quantum physics Regular ...

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An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...