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Interview, December 2017 https://youtu.be/l9-iPfRb9TI Interview with Physics Laureate Barry C. Barish on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Barry C. Barish answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – How did you become interested in Physics? – Who has inspired you? – How important is mentoring?…

Interview, December 2017 https://youtu.be/CVovLIjOsL4 Interview with the 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics Kip S. Thorne on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Kip S. Thorne answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – Why did you decide to become a physicist? – What do you enjoy…

Interview, December 2017 https://youtu.be/qUAB3Zn4bK0 Interview with Physics Laureate Rainer Weiss on 6 December 2017 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Rainer Weiss answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – What do you enjoy about science? – How did you become interested in science? – What advice would you…

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If you’re reading this online, and if you have just been surveying portraits of the new Nobel Laureates, then it’s safe to say that you’re benefitting directly from the two achievements rewarded with the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. The optical fibers along which this Speed read is travelling, and the digital imaging which underlies…

Luckily for us, the Universe is not symmetrical, at least at the subatomic level. If it was, the newly formed matter at the Universe’s birth would have been annihilated by an equal and opposite amount of antimatter, and nothingness would have resulted. Instead, a small imbalance, or asymmetry, in the amount of matter and antimatter…

Lying at the heart of the computer which you are using to read this article is a memory retrieval system based on the discoveries for which the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. They discovered, quite independently, a new way of using magnetism to control the flow of…

The 100th Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Mather and George Smoot for recording faint echoes of the birth of the universe. Their precise satellite measurements of the cosmic background radiation, remnants of the sea of light emitted by the new universe, have confirmed fundamental predictions arising from the Big Bang theory, leading…

Mining mysterious particles Raymond Davis Jr and Masatoshi Koshiba, 1/2 of the prize Stars like the Sun shine because they release vast supplies of heat and light as a result of squeezing tiny hydrogen atoms together to produce larger helium atoms. In theory, these fusion reactions also shoot out ghostly particles with almost no mass…