Although the proportion of female researchers in Europe is increasing, the under-representation of women in scientific disciplines and careers still persists. This is the message...

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is proud to announce the launch of a new blog, physicsfocus , and give all those interested in physics a...

Geneva 3 April 2013. The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS 1 ) announced the first results in its search for dark matter....

New research in optical measurement technologies enabling applications in industry, research modeling, inspection of nanostructures and artwork, and related topics will be presented at SPIE...

Thirty young leaders from the worlds of business, academia and research shared their inspiring ideas with policy-makers and business executives at the European Institute of...

Acquired by the European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope, the most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background – the relic radiation from...

On 13 March 2013 the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) -the largest ground-based astronomical project in the world- was inaugurated, marking the transition from construction...