Read article: US scientific societies blast Trump administration’s plan to politicize grants
The societies call on the US Congress to safeguard the integrity of the peer-review process
Read article: Leo Cancer Care launches first upright photon therapy system
The Grace radiotherapy system delivers conventional X-ray radiation therapy to patients in the upright position
Read article: NASA criticized over its management of $3.3bn Dragonfly mission to Titan
Cost overruns and delays have hit the drone-like rotorcraft mission
Read article: Cosmic microwave background pioneer George Smoot dies aged 80
Smoot and John Mather discovered tiny temperature fluctuations in the CMB
Read article: Quarter of UK physics departments face closure, finds IOP report
Survey of the heads of UK physics department finds most are expecting to drop courses
Read article: NASA launches IMAP mission to provide real-time space weather forecasts
IMAP will also map the boundary of the heliosphere, a huge protective bubble in space created by the Sun
Read article: Radioactive BEC could form a ‘superradiant neutrino laser’
Physicists plan to test idea in the lab
Read article: Bayes’ rule goes quantum
New work could help improve quantum machine learning and quantum error correction
Read article: ASTRO 2025: expanding the rules of radiation therapy
A look at some of the more unconventional applications of radiation therapy reported at the ASTRO 2025 meeting
Read article: Kirigami-inspired parachute falls on target
New system does not need to drift to avoid turbulence
Read article: Antiferromagnets could be better than ferromagnets for some ultrafast, high-density memories
Researchers in Japan have succeeded in switching a manganese-tin nanodot using electric current pulses as short as 0.1 ns
Read article: Schwinger effect appears in a 2D superfluid
Physicists model vacuum tunnelling in a simple system
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Read article: Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him
Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates
Read article: Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics
Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why
Read article: How the slowest experiment in the world became a fast success
Stefan Hutzler and Louise Bradley explain how they turned the famous pitch-drop experiment into an outreach activity
Read article: Bridging the gap between scientists, policy makers and industry to build the quantum ecosystem
Elizabeth Pasatembou and Dimitrie Cielecki discuss their experience of doing science policy engagement during their PhDs
Read article: Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect
Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers
Read article: From ‘rewarding and exciting’ to ‘challenging and overwhelming’: what it means to have a career in intelligence and cyber security
Curiosity, problem-solving and resilience are the key qualities for a career in intelligence
Read article: The top five physics Nobel prizes of the 21st century revealed
Matin Durrani counts down the five most significant physics Nobels since 2000
Read article: Be a part of our quantum celebration
Attend our special community celebration that traces the remarkable journey of quantum physics and its transformative potential for the future
Read article: Discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN inspires new stained-glass artwork
The piece is currently on display at the National Museum of Stained Glass in Switzerland
Read article: ‘Father of the Internet’ Vint Cerf expresses concern about the longevity of digital information
How do we create a digital version of the vellum and clay tablets that successfully preserved information in earlier ages of human history?
Read article: Andromeda image bags Royal Observatory Greenwich prize
The image – The Andromeda Core – showcases the core of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) in exceptional detail
Read article: AI-powered algorithms help provide rapid, accurate contouring of brain metastases
Deep learning-based contouring of multiple brain metastases eases clinical workload when planning stereotactic radiosurgery treatments
Read article: Delft Circuits: cryogenic RF cable innovations offer a flexible path to quantum scalability
The Dutch manufacturer Delft Circuits is rewriting the rules of I/O cabling technology for full-stack quantum computing systems
Read article: MRID3D phantom eases the introduction of MRI into the radiotherapy clinic
The QUASAR MRID3D geometric distortion analysis system from IBA Dosimetry enables physicists to exploit the power of the MR-only radiotherapy workflow
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