Read article 'Endowment reward for string theorists'
String theory in India recently received an unexpected boost when Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire based in New York, gave string theorists associated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TI...
Read article 'Physics from heaven and Earth'
The International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics of the European Physical Society (HEP-EPS) provided a superb synergy between physics, history and music, as Felicitas Pauss reports.
Read article 'Laser spectroscopy tests for inconstant constants'
Recent astrophysical measurements of distant quasar spectra indicate that the fundamental constants may be changing with time.
Read article 'mSUGRA celebrates its 20th year'
The SUGRA20 conference recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the invention of minimal supergravity grand unification, or mSUGRA, as Paul Frampton and Pran Nath describe.
Read article 'Universal fluctuations'
In this book, the authors present the appearance of universal limit probability laws in physics and their connections with the recently developed scaling theory of fluctuations.
Read article 'Testing times for strings'
The "hidden" dimensions of string theory may be much larger than was previously thought and may soon come within experimental reach, together with the strings themselves. Ignatios Antoniadis gives an ...
Read article 'The Global Approach to Quantum Field Theory'
This work in two volumes covers classical field theory, quantum mechanics and all major theoretical aspects of quantum field theory, and shows how they are related.
Read article 'Are the fundamental constants constant?'
Recent astronomical observations have raised the possibility that the natural constants are time-dependent. Harald Fritzsch considers the case for inconstant constants.
Read article 'Multiparticle dynamics goes to Crimea'
The 32nd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics was held on 7-13 September in Alushta, Ukraine. Since the first symposium in Paris 30 years ago, these meetings have covered the problems of ...
Read article 'Researchers observe two-proton radioactivity'
Teams from France, Germany and Poland have recently observed two-proton radioactive decay from iron-45 nuclei. Bertram Blank explains how this opens up exciting new research avenues in nuclear physics...
