CERN welcomes Ireland as an Associate Member State Ireland has officially become an Associate Member State of CERN, following confirmation that it has taken all the necessary steps to ratify the Associate Membership Agreement and accede to the protocol on CERN’s privileges and immunities. The starting date of Ireland’s status as an Associate Member State...
The combined results add to physicists’ understanding and they validate the impressive collaborative effort between two competing – yet complementary – experiments PRESS RELEASE OF THE T2K AND NOvA COLLABORATIONS When the universe began, physicists expect there should have been equal amounts of matter and...
Nanometa 2026: You can still submit your paper! The deadline is extended to 27th October.Visit the website of the conference to submit: https://www.nanometa.org/
Author: Vijala Kiruvanayagam In August, PhysicsWorld published a podcast based on an article published in EPL ‘Unveiling complexity: Statistical physics approaches to ecological communities’, Ada Altieri and Silvia De Monte. Link to the podcast: https://physicsworld.com/a/from-rabbits-and-foxes-to-the-human-gut-microbiome-physics-is-helping-us-understand-the-natural-world This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast is a conversation with two physicists, Ada Altieri and Silvia...
Interview with Ulrich Eckern on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for Clarke, Devoret and Martinis Author: Erich Runge My accompanying opinion piece as Chair of the Condensed Matter Division emphasizes that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is not an early tribute to the...
Author: Erich Runge When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis ‘for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit’ my first three thoughts were (i) ‘Oh, a...
7 October 2025 – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit” Read the press release of The Royal Swedish Academy of...
Read the September 2025 issue of e-EPS here. e-EPS is the Society’s monthly newsletter.
The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual “bowling-pin” shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter produced in the aftermath of the Big Bang CERN, Geneva, 18th September...
Author: Duarte Esteves, EPS Young Minds Lisbon On 5th April 2025, Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) fulfilled its usual tradition and opened its doors to the general public. With the goal of promoting science and engineering, over 100 free activities were offered to about...