Europe has spent a decade watching American and Chinese companies capture every major technology wave, cloud, mobile, social, AI. Quantum computing may be the exception. A cluster of French startups, backed by €500 million in government funding and underpinned by some of the world’s strongest physics research, is positioning France...

Following NASA’s Artemis II mission successfully splashing down on Earth, engineers started diving into detailed analysis of data to assess how key systems and subsystems on the Orion spacecraft, SLS (Space Launch System) rocket, and systems at the launch pad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida performed. The...

The Muon g-2 Collaborations at CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research — and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories — Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) — are the recipients of this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. Over a period of more than 60 years,...

AIP is working to enrich Niels Bohr Library & Archives collections by improving the documentation of women and underrepresented people in the physical sciences.  They collect visual documentation of the personal and professional lives of physical scientists. Their collection contains images of modern American physicists, astronomers, geophysicists and many other kinds of scientists.   In general, they...

By Phillipp Bircher With the appointment of Dr. Barbara Frei-Spreiter, RUAG International concludes the multi-stage search process to succeed André Wall as CEO of RUAG International and its space business, Beyond Gravity. Dr. Barbara Frei-Spreiter is a proven Swiss executive with over 25 years of international leadership experience in global...