This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features William Phillips, who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.

The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that "cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt." In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a ...

The melting of crystals is the process by which an increase in temperature induces the disruption of the ordered crystalline ...

Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Technion at Haifa have completed a century of their service. These renowned institutions ...

The Bhagavad Gita's wisdom has inspired luminaries like Sunita Williams, Manu Bhaker, and Gandhi. This ancient text provides ...

Peter Badge / Typos1 / The Abel Prize. This year, the Abel Prize — the field’s highest honor — has been awarded to Masaki ...

Newtown Historical Society hosted “Put Yourself Back in the Narrative — The Past, Present, and Future of Women in Science” at ...

With dynamic nations like China fueling groundbreaking innovations, there are currently top universities in Asia celebrated ...

The dishwasher, chocolate-chip cookies, and the first version of the Monopoly board game were all created by women.

Nvidia chips take their names from pioneering figures in STEM fields like mathematics and computer science.

Gerty Theresa Cori (1896-1957) was a trailblazing biochemist whose work fundamentally reformed our understanding of how cellular energy is stored and ...

It’s about endearing physics graduate students who ... Pim and I shared the NAE’s Draper Prize in 2011; he died (in 2013) before the Nobel committee awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...