The outstanding physicist Jacqueline Bloch is a specialist in polaritons, microscopic objects halfway between matter and light. She has just been awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, France’s highest...
During his “miraculous year” 120 years ago, Albert Einstein explained the photoelectric effect, laying the foundations of quantum mechanics. The historian of science Christian Bracco provides an...
The relation between matter and antimatter has puzzled scientists and sparked experiments on a gigantic scale. The physicist Marie-Hélène Schune explains.