Every year, AIP awards physical scientists for their leadership and excellence. In recognition of women in the physical sciences, here are the women that AIP honored in 2025 for their contributions to ...

Figuring out which bacteria or other nutrients your gut needs may one day be as simple as running detailed computer simulations. From pills to yogurts to sodas, probiotics are being repackaged and ...

Research adds weight to theory Arrokoth’s two lobes produced by gravitational collapse – and reveals process It is the most distant and primitive object ever visited by a spacecraft from Earth: now ...

Superintendents’ work is inherently political, but that increasingly challenging dimension of the job is often overlooked in their training and professional development. “This is not something you ...

From fingerprint dusting to DNA decoding, Forensic Science has long fascinated the public imagination. But beyond the drama of TV crime labs lies a demanding discipline that relies on rigorous ...

In material systems (left: examples of zeolites and organic structure-directing agents) and biomolecular systems (right: examples of enzymes and inhibitors), electronic states change locally due to ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

Do We Live In a Simulation? Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology. Senators vow oversight ...

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2025 — AIP has awarded $25,000 to the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder for the team’s proposed project, “Electricity and Magnetism with ...