The simplest questions are often the best. Robert P Crease tries to answer one from a physics student in Kenya Seeking perfection Tennis balls are a low-cost way to explore simple physics concepts, ...

Starlight Engine (SLE) and Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) have announced the completion of the conceptual design for the FAST (Fusion by Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) device. “I am delighted that we have ...

Having an impact: the next three “impact projects” will focus on the green economy, space technologies and opportunities in venture capital investment (courtesy: iStock_kmingww) The Institute of ...

In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report. The US particle physics ...

The cloistered world of Big Physics will be happy to learn that test, control, and design system specialists National Instruments (NI) has joined forces with Vitrociset, which designs, develops, and ...

The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully completed the Jiangmen ...

Index Ventures backs Quilter to automate circuit board design, a trillion-dollar bottleneck found in everything from phones to fighter jets. LOS ANGELES, October 08, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quilter, ...

Materials scientist David D. Awschalom is reflected in mirrors set up in his lab, October 15, 2018. Awschalom works on quantum networking Argonne National Laboratory. (Jean Lachat / ANL / University ...

Workers prepare the Fat Man, the implosion bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945. Courtesy of the Atomic Heritage Foundation For many scientists involved in the Manhattan Project, the race ...

Researchers at the University of Washington working on both protein design and the understanding of gravity have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in life sciences and fundamental physics. The ...