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    Although the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ) takes place in 2025 to celebrate 100 years of quantum mechanics, it also aims to foster a dialogue between scientists and wider society to explore how they can benefit each other.

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    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 has been awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.

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    On 29 September 1954, the European Organization for Nuclear Research came formally into existence, growing out of the post-war turmoil with the aim of establishing scientific collaboration between nations.

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    Doing physics is messy and being a physicist is even more complicated. Today

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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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