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Dark-matter paper raises questions over data sharing

Is it unfair that NASA data are immediately made available to all?

Canadian theory institute honours Stephen Hawking

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics names new building after the Cambridge physicist

Physicist shares Nobel Prize for Chemistry

X-ray crystallography breakthrough awarded with Nobel prize

Optics pioneers scoop Nobel prize

Trio share SEK10m prize for their work on fibre optics and charge-coupled devices

In depth

Vitaly Ginzburg: a life in physics

Vitaly Ginzburg – one of the most prominent Russian theoretical physicists of the 20th century – talks exclusively about his achievements in physics, his distrust of the church's growing role in Russian society and how the hydrogen bomb saved his life.

How to publish a scientific comment

Rick Trebino relives the time he tried – and failed – to have a comment published in a scientific journal

A very good Englishman

Graham Farmelo examines the letters of nuclear theorist Rudolf Peierls

The lure of synchrotrons

Robert P Crease asks how sound are the arguments that the next generation of synchrotron sources are an essential tool for meeting the energy challenge?