Cornell University’s Paul Ginsparg has been awarded the 2020 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

Trapped-ion computing pioneer Chris Monroe describes how decades of experience in academic and government research led him to start his own quantum computing firm

About 80% of Chinese scientists who have gone abroad to study or work in the previous decade have returned home and are now publishing high-impact, collaborative research.

Dogs trained to sniff out early signs of cancer in human breath are probably detecting large molecules captured by aerosols in the breath, rather than more volatile substances present as gases.

The upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile has been renamed the Vera C Rubin Observatory, making it the first national US observatory to be named after a female astronomer.

Not many people may know that the key experimental test of general relativity – the observation of the deflection of starlight by the Sun’s gravity during a solar eclipse – first occurred to Albert Einstein not in Zurich or Berlin, but in Prague. Einstein in Bohemia , the deeply researched wide-ranging and original book by historian Michael Gordin, delves into Einstein's relationship with Prague.

India has announced $1.12bn over five years towards a national programme for quantum technology and applications. The measures were presented by India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman to parliament on 1 February as part of the country’s 2020–2021 budget.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a microneedle patch containing a nanocrystal dye that creates near-infrared-emitting dots under the skin.

In response to Alan T Collins’ letter “Frying pan to fire” (February p21), which touched on clean electric sources for electric vehicles

US government science agencies have made solid progress in reaching the goals of the 2013 decadal survey on solar and space physics.