Physics
Nobel panel to reveal 2021 prize for physics
The 2021 Nobel Prize for physics is being announced Tuesday, an award that has in the past honored discoveries about fundamental forces of nature and cosmic phenomena...
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China says nuclear fuel rods damaged, no radiation leak
The Chinese government says a nuclear power plant near Hong Kong had five broken fuel rods in a reactor but no radioactivity leaked...
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Panel to announce 2020 Nobel Prize for physics
The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics is being announced Tuesday...
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Climate threat doubter is leading effort to advise Trump
The Trump administration is exploring the idea of a special committee to look at climate change and security risks, with the effort being coordinated by a 79-year-old physicist who rejects mainstream ...
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Skeptic on radiation limits will head EPA radiation panel
The Environmental Protection Agency has appointed a scientist who argues for easing regulations on lower-level radiation exposures to lead the agency's radiation advisory committee...
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Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, dies
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died at 65...
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Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist Paul Allen dies at 65
Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died at 65...
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman dies at 96
Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase "God particle," has died at 96...
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