Katalin Karikó’s research laid the foundation for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines.

AIP History Weekly Edition: October 9, 2026

The Milky Way’s massive black hole is rapidly rotating, and a star in an unprecedentedly close orbit could help measure its spin

Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling quantum science that he, alongside Einstein, did much to advance

NIH-led Bio Genesis Mission will leverage existing biomedical data resources to accelerate SI-enabled discovery and improve human health.

Preetish Kakoty describes why India's only Nobel-prize-winning physicist went to Sweden on a whim

IceCube experiment at the South Pole tops our list of the 10 key breakthroughs in physics

Astrophysicist wins for his work detecting cosmic neutrinos

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

At the end of the turbulent 1960s, the postwar funding boom in US physics came to a crashing halt. The lessons learned then may be helpful to today’s physicists.

AIP History Weekly Edition: October 2, 2026

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

Why a recent call to abolish the NIH is a decoy to accelerate the OSTP-endorsed transfer of federal science funding to corporate interests

Honor Powrie pays tribute to the work of tribologists

New work could lead to improvements in organic photovoltaics

A decades-old neutrino mystery might be solved not by undiscovered physics but by improved calculations.

University plans range of awards in basic and applied science, seeking to meet "moment of remarkable opportunity."

Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

2026 Decatur Book Festival Schedule

Scientists raced to finish a new telescope before Trump could cancel the funding. And they won.

A scrappy science project led to a significant discovery: two new species of a rare organism that could elucidate a fundamental transition in the history of life on our planet.