Read article: Lowering exam stakes could cut the gender grade gap in physics, finds study
The gender gap in exam results was much larger in the high-stakes classes that did not allow retakes
Read article: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab lays off a further 10% of staff
The California-based lab has now lost almost a third of staff since the start of 2024
Read article: Influential theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Chen-Ning Yang dies aged 103
Yang is famed for his work on parity violation
Read article: Theoretical physicist Michael Berry wins 2025 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize
Berry recognized for his contributions in mathematics and theoretical physics over a 60-year career
Read article: Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi win the 2025 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Trio honoured for their work on metal-organic frameworks
Read article: John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis win the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics
Trio honoured for their work on quantum tunnelling in superconducting circuits
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
