Category: Physics
2023 Nobel Prize in physics – Attosecond Physics
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to three scientists, Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier, for their “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

Antimatter
For the first time, scientists have observed antimatter particles falling downwards due to the effect of gravity, Europe’s physics lab CERN announced.
Nuclear Power Plants in India

Pines’ demon
An elusive particle proposed in 1956 by theoretical physicist David Pines has just been discovered

Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant
The third unit of the indigenously developed 700-megawatt electric (MWe) nuclear power reactor at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project (KAPP3) in Gujarat has commenced operations at full capacity.
Leidenfrost effect
Article in The Hindu – Science For All | What is Leidenfrost effect?
LK-99: Superconductor
South Korean scientists named LK-99 to a material that is recently reported as a superconductor at room temperature and pressure.
Semiconductors and India Semiconductor Mission
Foxconn withdrew from a semiconductor joint venture with the Vedanta Group in order to pursue a wider range of development prospects.
‘Time Dilation’ in Early Universe
Scientists used observations of quasars to demonstrate time dilation in the early universe, showing how time then passed only about a fifth as quickly as it does today.