Read article: Blue plaque unveiled in honour of remarkable Hungarian-born polymer scientist Andrew Keller
Plaque remembers Jewish refugee who escaped the Nazis and Russians before making his name in the UK
Read article: Steven Weinberg: probably the greatest theorist of his age
Matin Durrani recalls his encounters with the late Steven Weinberg, who died in July 2021
Read article: Neutron-science pioneer John Enderby dies aged 90
British physicist was a staunch advocate of scholarly publishing
Read article: Japanese Nobel-prize-winning particle physicist Toshihide Maskawa dies aged 81
Maskawa shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the mechanism of “broken symmetry” that led to the prediction of a new family of quarks.
Read article: US Nobel-prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies aged 88
Giant of 20th-century physics was instrumental in formulating the Standard Model of particle physics in the 1960s
Read article: Talking about Hawking, Brazil’s new synchrotron light source
In this podcast we chat about a new biography of Stephen Hawking and catch up with the director of Latin America’s only synchrotron light source
Read article: How Stephen Hawking became the world’s most famous physicist
Laura Hiscott reviews Hawking Hawking: the Selling of a Scientific Celebrity by Charles Seife
Read article: Space engineer takes over as head of the MIT Media Lab
Dava Newman, an expert in the human exploration of space, became the lab's director on 1 July
Read article: James Peebles: a life in cosmology
Nobel laureate and cosmologist James Peebles from Princeton University on winning the prize, cosmological models and his new book
Read article: Ask me anything: Jim Al-Khalili – ‘I find quantum mechanics endlessly rewarding, fascinating and frustrating’
Careers advice from Jim Al-Khalili, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Surrey and award-winning science communicator
