Researchers in the US have studied the physics of how cutting onions can produce a tear-jerking reaction.

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Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never ...

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Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are honoured for their work on metal-organic frameworks (Courtesy: Niklas Elmehed for Nobel Prize Outreach ) Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar ...

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Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity ...

We also look back to two early Nobel prizes, which were given for very puzzling reasons. One was awarded in 1908 to Gabriel Lippmann for an impractical colour-photography technique that was quickly ...