Meg Urry was the first tenured woman professor in the Department of Physics at Yale University and was often the only woman in her physics classes, including her graduate class at MIT, but she still ...

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Kim Bernard, the inaugural Artist-in-Resident in the physics department, showcased her interactive kinetic sculptures, including bouncing concrete balls attached to springs and a harmonograph that ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the artist Geraldine Cox, who draws on her background in physics to create pieces inspired by the patterns of nature. Cox talks about her ...

Bernard M. K. Nefkens, a world-renowned experimental elementary particle physicist who worked in the UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department for nearly 50 years, died Jan. 10 after being diagnosed with ...

Art students at Princeton University recently spent several weeks painting pieces based on ordinary objects like gears, an old telephone booth and an experimental fusion device in the U.S. Department ...

When I was young and naive, my ambition was to become an astrophysicist. I was starstruck by the cosmos, inebriated by Hubble’s imagery and the mind-blowing concepts of Einstein’s general relativity.

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From science-fiction epics such as H G Wells’ The Time Machine to Ian McEwan’s novel Solar, physics has long been a rich source of themes and characters for fiction writers. In our latest books ...

When I was young and naive, my ambition was to become an astrophysicist. I was starstruck by the cosmos, inebriated by Hubble’s imagery and the mind-blowing concepts of Einstein’s general relativity.