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Physicists chilled a sugar crystals then used them to search for dark matter. This new project is called SWEET.

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Physics Nobel Prize Winners 2025: Three US-based scientists — John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis — have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of macroscopic ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for their groundbreaking experiments demonstrating quantum mechanical effects in a macroscopic ...