Many celebrated names in science have published their research in Proc. R. Soc., including Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford, and Erwin Schrödinger.

In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has presented data that directly challenges our current ...

In 1928 the physicist Paul Dirac proposed that every particle of matter should have an antimatter counterpart. But shortly after the big bang, most of the antimatter disappeared, leaving behind the ...

LONDON — A trio of scientists who opened new doors in our understanding of the structure of proteins — the fundamental building blocks of biology — and even came up with ways to create new ...

This year's Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine has been awarded to two American scientists who discovered how "microRNA" controls the decoding of genetic information in living organisms.

These services are rooted in mathematics and computer science, not physics. But research by Dr. Hopfield and Dr. Hinton in the late 1970s and early 1980s helped influence the development of the ...

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Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday.

Ellen Moons, a member of the Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, explained how the two scientists "used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design neural ...

Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images On Monday, American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their “groundbreaking” discovery of ...

Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images A pair of scientists—John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton—won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work on artificial neural networks ...

Oct. 7 (UPI) --U.S.-based scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology on Monday for discovering microRNA molecules, which determine how genes behave.