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BBC News
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A controversial theory of physics may explain some aspects of galaxy behaviour better than rival, but more widely accepted, ideas.
That is the claim of an astronomer who studied eight so-called dwarf galaxies.
Modified Newtonian Dynamics (Mond) is p..
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www.princeton.edu
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Princeton physicists connect string theory with established physics
String theory, simultaneously one of the most promising and controversial ideas in modern physics, may be more capable of helping probe the inner workings of subatomic particles than w..
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Physorg
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Work completed by physics professors at Rowan University shows that light is made of particles and waves, a finding that refutes a common belief held for about 80 years.
Shahriar S. Afshar, the visiting professor who is currently at Boston's Institute..
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BBC News
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The body overseeing UK astronomy and physics is to commission an independent review of its operations.
The probe into the effectiveness of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) follows widespread concern over the status of its budget...
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BBC News
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The future development of one of Europe's scientific "crown jewels" may be affected by the current woes over the UK's physics budget.
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is a world-leading centre for the study of the structure of materia..
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BBC News
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The "doom and gloom" being spread about the state of UK physics and the funding of research is unhelpful and paints an inaccurate picture, says Keith Mason.
The chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council claims the likely fallout..
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BBC News
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The government is to review its funding for physics after scientists warned of an �80m research shortfall.
Leading physicists criticised the threatened cutbacks which they said could "damage" physics research.
Science Minister Ian Pearson said fun..
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Physorg
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For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity and the other forces of nature.
Those..
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New Scientist
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In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of "particles" with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives of ordinary peopl..
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New York Times
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Three days after learning that he won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, George Smoot was talking about the universe. Sitting across from him in his office at the University of California, Berkeley, was Saul Perlmutter, a fellow cosmologist and a probable f..
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New York Times
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Like the musical Woodstock, the legend of the “Woodstock of Physics” grows year after year.
Twenty years ago this month, nearly 2,000 physicists crammed into a New York Hilton ballroom to hear about a breakthrough class of materials called high-tem..
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New York Times
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The price of exploring inner space went up today. At a news conference in Beijing an international consortium of physicists released the first detailed design of what they believe will be the Next Big Thing in physics: a machine 20 miles long that will..
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