physics
Dark matter and exoplanet discoveries win Nobel Physics Prize
Science
October 8, 2019
Dark matter and exoplanet discoveries win Nobel Physics Prize
Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for…
CERN condemns ‘offensive’ address on women and science
Science
October 1, 2018
CERN condemns ‘offensive’ address on women and science
Europe’s physics lab CERN on Monday disavowed a lecture by an invited scientist who claimed physics was “built by…
Stephen Hawking: ‘His laboratory was the universe’
World
March 14, 2018
Stephen Hawking: ‘His laboratory was the universe’
Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers. Hawking, who died at…
Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died
World
March 14, 2018
Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died
Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, died early Wednesday,…
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for Gravitational Wave discovery to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne
Science News
October 3, 2017
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for Gravitational Wave discovery to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne
Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday that it had awarded the 2017 Nobel Physics prize. The prize, established…
Physics exam not to be canceled despite leak: Education Ministry
Egypt
June 12, 2016
Physics exam not to be canceled despite leak: Education Ministry
The head of the Education Ministry’s public education sector, Reda Hegazy, has said that Sunday's public high school physics exam…
Japanese, Canadian neutrino scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics
Science
October 6, 2015
Japanese, Canadian neutrino scientists win Nobel Prize for Physics
Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald of Canada won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the discovery…
Higgs boson: What’s all the fuss about?
Environment
July 31, 2012
Higgs boson: What’s all the fuss about?
What do President Mohamed Morsy’s brain, the Constituent Assembly and Cairo traffic all have in common? None of them, alas,…
The accelerating universe and us
Opinion
October 18, 2011
The accelerating universe and us
Our universe is not only expanding; it is also doing so at an accelerating rate. For this remarkable empirical discovery…