A study led by UCC’s Prof Séamus Davis has paved the way for developing ‘revolutionary’ room-temperature superconductors. Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) and the University of Oxford have ...

High-temperature superconductivity has long been hailed as the “crown jewel” of condensed matter physics. In 2023, the nickel ...

Researchers studying the link between strange metals and superconductivity have made a breakthrough towards answering a long standing question in condensed-matter physics Strange metals are highly ...

A new type of computer uses oscillators in special materials to find the most efficient solutions to complex scheduling and routing problems at room temperature. (Nanowerk News) A line of engineering ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

Greek-American professor John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work that paved the way for quantum ...

Scientists have created the world's hottest engine running at temperatures hotter than those reached in the sun's core. The ...

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 ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

Modelers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) models can produce climate simulations with more efficiency than ...

Nobel Prize 2025 award ceremony will be held December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel, the wealthy ...