Prof Roger Penrose, joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics 2020
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on black … read more
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on black … read more
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been half awarded to Prof Roger Penrose for his discovery that black hole … read more
Prof Didier Queloz, of Cambridge University, was announced as one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics … read more
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won buy James Peebles (Princeton University, USA), Didier Queloz (University of Geneva, … read more
World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. read more
The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves. read more
It has been announced that, for the first time, scientists have detected gravitational waves which would confirm the theory of general relativity. read more
Publishing in the journal Nature, a group of scientists have described their work on quantum theory, reporting an instantaneous interaction between two electrons separated by a distance of 1.3 km. read more
Gravitational waves have been directly detected for the first time by a US team at the south pole’s BICEP detector. Predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, the waves are a product of the big bang and provide strong evidence for ‘cosmic inflation’. read more
The physics Nobel has been awarded to Prof Francoise Englert and Prof Peter Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”. read more
The Plank satellite captured a map of light originating from the dawn of time, which suggests the universe did begin with a big bang and that it is slightly older than was previously thought. read more
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) presented preliminary results that indicate the particle discovered last year behaves like a Higgs boson, the particle linked to the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. read more
Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer, author and long running presenter of The Sky at Night, died at the age of 89. read more
Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland were awarded the Nobel prize in physics for independently developing methods for measuring and manipulating individual particles while preserving their quantum-mechanical nature. read more
The first of two rapid reaction sent out from the SMC, comments from leading particle physicists were sent out in anticipation of the announcement that confirmed the Higgs boson had been discovered at the LHC. read more
The final data produced by the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab in the US found the strongest evidence yet of the Higgs boson, but not enough to claim a discovery. read more
After many months of waiting, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation finally announced that the massive telescope array will be shared between Australia-NZ and South Africa. The comment below was sent in addition to comments from the Australian SMC. read more
News from the OPERA collaboration at CERN that they had found two possible sources of error in the apparent recording of neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light. The SMC sent out responses. read more
Scientists offered comment on the latest evidence on the Higgs boson from CERN in Geneva. read more
Results from another group of scientists within the Gran Sasso team, ICARUS, suggested that the putatively light-speed-beating neutrinos hadn’t lost energy en route, thus casting further doubt on the OPERA result. Their data were published in October but picked up by the press on 20th November. read more