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    The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter“.

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    15 years ago, topological insulators were discovered, marking the start of a new branch of condensed matter physics.

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    Physics research comes with an environmental cost. It can also have many benefits.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

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    The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced ten years ago on the 4th of July 2012 — an event that substantially advanced our understanding of the origin of elementary particles’ masses.

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    Machine learning is becoming a familiar tool in all aspects of physics research: in experiments from experimental design and optimization, to data acquisition and analysis; in numerical simulation and even in theory.

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    At Nature Reviews, editors work closely with authors and referees to create high-quality, timely and accessible resources for the scientific community.

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    In 2022 we will celebrate four decades of quantum computing by looking back at the milestones of the field and forward at the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

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    The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their advances in complex physical systems. In

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    2020 was a year of economic turmoil in many parts of the world — and 2021 promises much of the same.

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    In this collection we highlight the latest progress in our ability to sense and image the world around us.