The Nobel Prize is regarded as one of the most prestigious medals in science. Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File Out of 225 people awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, only five have been women. This ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Women’s History Month is days away and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s partnership with two universities is paving a new path for indigenous women studying physics. The ...

I moved to Rockford involuntarily in 2013. My entire life and plan for my life was a vision of physics education in the Chicago suburbs — the home of two national labs, Fermi Lab and Argonne, the ...

Have you ever wondered why some elements are rarer than others (like gold versus lead)? Maria Goeppert Mayer loved solving puzzles as a child, and she solved that one, too. She also discovered “magic ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – There is still a substantial gender gap in the STEM world. A recent report shows about a third of those in the industry are women, and very few are Indigenous. In New Mexico, there ...

Undergraduate women interested in physics are coming to UC Santa Cruz from colleges and universities throughout the western United States and Canada for the 10th annual Conference for Undergraduate ...

In Her Space, Her Time, physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led some of the biggest breakthroughs in astronomy and physics. Big questions in ...

Although more women than men in the U.S. earn college degrees, striking gender gaps remain in specific disciplines. Men significantly outnumber women in several STEM (science, technology, engineering, ...

Fewer than one in 10 senior authors in a prestigious physics journal are women, according to a new study. I was inspired to investigate this topic after speaking to a top scientific journal editor in ...

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - A trio of American, French and Canadian scientists won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for breakthroughs in laser technology that have turned light beams into ...

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