As ISIS – the UK’s muon and neutron source – turns 40, Rosie de Laune and colleagues from ISIS explore the past, present and future of neutron scattering ...

This view of the atomic nucleus changed when James Chadwick discovered the existence of the neutron in 1932, for which he won the Nobel Prize three years later. Not too long afterward, scientists ...

James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, transformed nuclear physics. The work of the Nobel Prize winner led to groundbreaking advancements in atomic theory, nuclear energy, and medical treatments, ...

James Prescott Joule demonstrated this rule ... of atoms that comes from their internal structure. Curie won the Nobel Prize (twice) for her discoveries — making her the first woman to do ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

This year’s economics award reinforces a comforting but false story about democracy.

The story so far: The 2024 Economics Nobel prize was awarded to U.S. economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson on Monday “for studies of how institutions are formed and ...

Data is eating the world and winning Nobel Prizes, hiding behind better marketing terms such as “artificial intelligence” or “AI.” The 2024 Nobel for Physics was awarded to Geoffrey Hinton ...

Prof. James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago has been awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored ...

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson examined how different kinds of European colonization led to some nations being rich and others poor.

Congratulations to James A. Robinson (Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science) and John Jumper (doctoral graduate from the Department of Chemistry in ...