Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – ...

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect ...

Until now, physicists thought that all heavy nuclei deformed from spheres are elongated in one direction like rugby balls ...

In July 2025, AIP started an initiative to improve the documentation and contributions of women in the physical sciences.

Vincenzo Savona, head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems. 2025 EPFL/Murielle Gerber- CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...

Subatomic physics has shaped both the conduct of war and the treatment of cancer. Joseph Rotblat, who left the Manhattan ...

Together with Ove Nathan, Ole oversaw a proposal to build a large tandem accelerator at the Niels Bohr Institute department ...

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively studied cosmological phenomena. Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts ...