The 5th International Conference on the History of Physics took place in Coimbra from 29 to 31 May 2025, under the sponsorship of the Institute of Physics, the History of Physics Group of the European Physical Society, Springer, and the Portuguese Physical Society—represented locally by...
Author: Dina Izadi By combining art and science, we can create powerful learning experiences that foster curiosity, understanding, and appreciation for the world around us. In the early 1920s, Niels Bohr was struggling to reimagine the structure of matter. Previous generations of physicists had thought...
Author: Michael Gregory Over the past few months, the European Physical Society ran “Spring into Discovery Space” – a webinar series and contest to introduce teachers across Europe to the Discovery Space Project. Discovery Space is an EU-funded project to develop an Exploratory Learning Environment...
Author: Richard Blythe EPL is a respected non-profit journal that publishes letters at the frontiers of physics. On May 22nd 2025, its editorial board convened at the headquarters of the European Physical Society (EPS) in Mulhouse, France, to share their experience of handling manuscripts and...
A report from Lorenzo Unich, PONYS (Physics and Optics Naples Young Students) As young scientists we are often challenged to destroy what our certainties and beliefs are, even if they’re very rooted. On many occasions we have to completely change the point of view on...
Mulhouse, 23rd May 2025. The European Physical Society is pleased to announce that Daniela Bortoletto studied Physics at the University of Pavia, specializing in particle physics with a thesis entitled “Study of states with hidden strangeness at the Omega’ spectrometer”. She then obtained her...
José María De Teresa is the new EPS President-Elect Prof. José María De Teresa leads the group of Nanofabrication and Advanced Microscopies (Nanomidas) at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA, CSIC-Universidad of Zaragoza) in Spain. He is the Coordinator of the Spanish...
The European Physical Society and Acinque launch the Alessandro Volta Prize to celebrate excellence in physics Copenhagen, Denmark / Como, Italy – 16th May 2025 – The European Physical Society (EPS), in collaboration with Acinque S.p.A., is pleased to announce the launch of the Alessandro...
Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei Geneva, 8th May 2025. In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of...
The 13th Persian Young Naturalists’ Tournament, PYNT was held on 1st-2nd May 2025 , by the Ariaian Young Innovative Minds Institute, AYIMI and the ADIB institute , (http://www.ayimi.org) among 12-16 years old students. Participants challenged with each other on problems were selected from international part,...