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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" and jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 was awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza "for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability."

This opinion piece argues that humans’ prowess at endurance running has little to do with our ancestors’ quest for meat.

Katarzyna Mickiewicz, a Newcastle University research fellow, describes his experiments that prove that bacteria can change shape with no genetic changes.

Leaked details about Google's quantum supremacy experiment stirred up a media frenzy about the next quantum computing milestone.

For the last year, Jessica Wynne, a photographer and professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, has been photographing mathematicians’ blackboards, finding art in the swirling gangs of symbols sketched in the heat of imagination, argument and speculation.

The flows inside cells are intricate and often counterintuitive. Measurements, models, and simulations are helping to unravel the complexities.

Researchers rushing to apply powerful sequencing techniques to ancient-human remains must think harder about safeguarding the samples.

What can simulating 8 million universes tell us about the history of our own universe?

Scholars globally are feeling the heat from politicians. They should take inspiration from scientists in the 1950s who raised the alarm over nuclear weapons.