physics

Trio win Nobel Physics Prize for black hole research

by Johannes LEDEL / with Patrick GALEY in Paris STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) -- A trio of scientists, Roger Penrose of…

Magnetic north pole leaves Canada, on fast new path

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole -- used in navigation systems such as…

Black holes dissolving like aspirin: How Hawking changed physics

by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- When Stephen Hawking postulated in the mid-1970s that black…

Science shines a light on anti-matter

by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - Physicists on Monday announced an important step towards unravelling one…

Scientists say hoped-for physics particle was just a blip

CHICAGO, United States (AFP) - Hopes for a new particle discovery that might have up-ended the standard model of physics were…

Chinese professors make breakthrough in quantum information

A quantum information research team led by Professor Pan Jianwei won the first prize in 2015 China's State Natural Sciences…

Scientists from Japan, Canada win Nobel Prize in physics

Two scientists from Japan and Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, for discovering that neutrinos have mass,…

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