Quantum dots: TV screen crystals win Chemistry Nobel Prize
The nanoparticles create more precise colours and are used in TV screens as well as medical imaging.
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Australian towns battle fire and flood back to back
The nation has reeled from disaster to disaster in recent years, as it feels the effects of climate change.
Physics Nobel Prize rewards science on a ‘tiny timescale’
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into electrons in "flashes of light".