Every year, AIP awards physical scientists for their leadership and excellence. In recognition of women in the physical sciences, here are the women that AIP honored in 2025 for their contributions to ...

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Revealing insights at the core of new developments to benefit humanity and improving our understanding of the foundation for all sciences. Understand underlying forces that drive the universe and our ...

Ka Yee C. Lee has been appointed dean of the University of Chicago’s Physical Sciences Division, President Paul Alivisatos and Provost Katherine Baicker announced. Her term began March 1. The David ...

The Herald’s fall 2023 poll, which collected over 1,000 responses from undergraduate students, found that approximately one-third of current students are concentrating in the physical sciences, more ...

The latest short chemistry policy news items from C&EN. Drop in high school seniors enrolling in college in all majors in 2020 compared with 2019. Schools identified as high poverty showed the ...

Japan and Switzerland move up the ranks. The United States is the global leader in physical sciences research, but China is rapidly closing the gap. China achieved the largest growth in high-quality ...

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NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli working on DNA sequencing of microbes on the International Space Station. A new decadal survey called on NASA to increase funding of biological and physical sciences ...

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps doing research on the ISS. NASA is working on a strategy to respond to a biological and physical sciences decadal survey, balancing that report's goals with expected ...