President Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize, but that’s only one small step in the secretive process.

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to GPS and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert ...

Prof. J. Michael Kosterlitz is the 2016 Nobel Prize Winner for Physics. Through his career, he overturned the conventional understanding that ...

At the heart of ESVA is the Segrè Collection. A passionate photographer from the age of ten, Segrè documented much of his ...

Ivar Giaever, Norwegian scientist who made Capital Region his home before winning Nobel Prize in 1973, died on June 20 in ...

In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

The Norwegian-born condensed-matter physicist Ivar Giaever, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973, died on 20 June at the age of 96. In the late 1950s, Giaever made pioneering progress in the ...

A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...