As a paradigmatic case, Merton recalls the story of Lord Rayleigh, Nobel laureate for physics in 1904. ... Why famous scientists keep getting more famous appeared first on Boing Boing.

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA. Three scientists won last year’s physics Nobel for providing ...

A century since Werner Heisenberg changed the course of physics, five of the world’s leading physicists examine the greatest achievements of quantum mechanics and look forward to the next 100 ...

STOCKHOLM — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning. "This year's two ...

Scientists May Have Found a Way to Simplify Gravity. It Could Change Physics as We Know It. It may be more straightforward than we thought—mathematically speaking, anyway.

Recently, their efforts received international recognition. In April, the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics went to four international collaborations working at the LHC, which is operated ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John Hopfield, Princeton University, U.S.A., and Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada ...