in space and time Measuring the universe using black holes Turning darkness into light Taking the temperature of the early universe Catching the flavour of a neutrino oscillation Living laser brought to life Complete quantum computer made on a single chip Seeing pure relics from the Big Bang 2012: "to the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN for their joint discovery of a Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider". Majorana fermions Time-reversal violation Galaxy-cluster motion Peering through opaque materials Room-temperature maser Wiping data will cost you energy Entangling twisted beams Neutrino-based communication Generating and storing energy in one step 2013: "the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory for making the first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos". Nuclear physics goes pear-shaped Creating 'molecules' of light Planck reveals 'almost perfect' universe Quantum microscope' peers into the hydrogen atom Quantum state endures for 39 minutes at room temperature The first carbon-nanotube computer B-mode polarization spotted in cosmic microwave background The first laser-cooled Bose–Einstein condensate Hofstadter's butterfly spotted in graphene 2014: "to the landing by the European Space Agency of the Philae (spacecraft) on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko", which was the first time a probe had been landed on a comet Quasar shines a bright light on cosmic web Neutrinos spotted from Sun's main nuclear reaction Laser fusion passes milestone Electrons' magnetic interactions isolated at long last Disorder sharpens optical-fibre images Data stored in magnetic holograms Lasers ignite 'supernovae' in the lab Quantum data are compressed for the first time Physicists sound-out acoustic tractor beam 2015: "for being the first to achieve the simultaneous quantum teleportation of two inherent properties of a fundamental particle – the photon". Cyclotron radiation from a single electron is measured for the first time Weyl fermions are spotted at long last Physicists claim 'loophole-free' Bell-violation experiment First visible light detected directly from an exoplanet LHCb claims discovery of two pentaquarks Hydrogen sulphide is warmest ever superconductor at 203 K Portable 'battlefield MRI' comes out of the lab Fermionic microscope sees first light Silicon quantum logic gate is a first 2016: "to LIGO's gravitational wave discovery". Schrödinger's cat lives and dies in two boxes at once Elusive nuclear-clock transition spotted in thorium-229 New gravimeter-on-a-chip is tiny yet extremely sensitive Negative refraction of electrons spotted in graphene Rocky planet found in habitable zone around Sun's nearest neighbour Physicists take entanglement beyond identical ions 'Radical' new microscope lens combines high resolution with large field of