In a 1992 article for Physics World, Tim Berners-Lee wrote about the difficulties of managing the explosion of information available through his new invention, the World Wide Web. He saw that while ...

What does a female scientist have to do to get her own Wikipedia page? Literally win the Nobel Prize. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Strickland’s work had “revolutionized laser physics.” ...

Laurent Simons, a 15-year-old prodigy, has completed his PhD in quantum physics from Belgium’s University of Antwerp, in what could be a record time. The teen, who completed his bachelor’s degree in ...

It has entries on the Radioactive Boy Scout, Oscar the death-predicting cat and the man with the longest beard in recorded history, but until yesterday, when Donna Strickland became the first woman ...

It was about five in the morning in Ontario, Canada, when Donna Strickland’s phone rang. The Nobel Prize committee was on the line in Stockholm, calling to tell her she had won the prize in physics.

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...