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

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    In this collection we explore the rapid development of multi-messenger astrophysics, an inter-disciplinary field that expands our understanding of the most violent astrophysical processes and reshapes the way science is done in terms of big collaborations, instruments and data.

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    The discovery of the quantum Hall effect in 1980 marked a turning point in condensed matter physics.

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    In this collection we put together updates from big science facilities and big collaborations around the world: new instrumentation, upgrades, data releases, funding, upcoming projects and missions.

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