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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025: Quantum Physics
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis,“for their discovery of the macroscopic tunneling effect in quantum mechanics and the quantization of energy in an electric circuit“. Michel Devoret, a French physicist, is a former researcher at IRAMIS/SPEC, a laboratory of the CEA-Saclay, where…

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New equation tracing human progress in energy use
Historical data on global energy consumption and economic activity is now increasingly detailed. This allows for a quantitative study of the increase in economic energy efficiency, defined as the ratio of global GDP to total final energy consumption by economic entities, machines, animals or humans, including their food. Over the last two centuries, this approach…
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