Princeton University15h
John Hopfield and Fei-Fei Li win Queen Elizabeth Prize as pioneers in modern AI
Princeton's John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, and former Princeton professor Fei-Fei Li '99 were two of ...
New Research Ranks The 10 Smartest Countries In The World
An unofficial ranking of the world's cleverest countries based on criteria including number of Nobel Prize nominations and ...
Physics World7d
When Bohr got it wrong: the impact of a little-known paper on the development of quantum theory
Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...
Boston College5d
Choosing the next Nobel Laureate
The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...
IFLScience1mon
What Is "Nobel Disease", And Why Do So Many Prizewinners Develop It?
Albert Einstein, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the photoelectric effect and the great physicist behind general and special relativity, once said: “The exaggerated ...
Physics World1d
International quantum year launches in style at UNESCO headquarters in Paris
The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology gets under way at an event at UNESCO headquarters in Paris ...
Fast Company24d
Nobel and World Food prize winners call for new ways to prevent a global hunger crisis
Brian Schmidt, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2011, said the need to dramatically increase food production in the coming decades is a huge challenge. He calls it a “destination with ...