At the height of World War II, Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant British physicist working on the Manhattan Project, secretly passed ...

The First Quebec Conference, 1943: (clockwise from top left) Mr Mackenzie King, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cambridge, Earl of Athlone, and President Roosevelt - Bettmann Manhattan, Mayson, Maud. One ...

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

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a team of scientists based in the U.S. for their landmark discovery in quantum ...

Quantum field theory marries the ideas of other quantum theories to depict all particles as “excitations” that arise in underlying fields. The British physicist Paul Dirac started the ball rolling in ...

Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis were also awarded the physics Nobel on Tuesday. A fellow of the Royal Society of London ...

British physicists claim they’ve created the “world’s smallest violin” — and, by the looks of it, they could take a bow for their masterpiece invention. The brainy bunch at Loughborough University ...

It was two years ago that the Oscar-winning blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' sent the message that it was the Americans, or rather one American in particular, who was responsible for the atomic explosion ...

The Mpemba effect, in which hot systems cool faster than cold ones under the same conditions, was first described by Aristotle more than 2,000 years ago. In 1963 it was rediscovered by Tanzanian ...